John Turner pats Campagnolo’s bum, 1984

In 1984, during that year’s election campaign, then prime minister John Turner was captured on camera patting Liberal party president Iona Campagnolo’s bottom, and doing the same to then Quebec Liberal Party vice-president Lise St. Martin-Tremblay. He at first wrote it off as being a “tactile politician,” but later apologized.

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