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Sex harassment case involving Trudeau Foundation should be heard in N.L., lawyer says

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A lawyer says the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation’s attempt to move a sexual harassment case to Quebec is an effort to delay the proceedings and end the lawsuit.

Marshall called it “very unusual" for the court's jurisdiction to be challenged, especially when the misconduct is alleged to have occurred in the province. “I believe in this case, it is a tactic on the Trudeau Foundation’s part to delay and cause Cherry Smiley to just give up,” she said in an interview during a break the hearing.

Marshall argued that the alleged sexual misconduct is at the centre of the case, not the scholarship or its contracts.

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