By John-Henry Westen
OTTAWA, September 27, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Belinda Stronach, the controversial now-Liberal MP who left the Conservative Party and was given a Cabinet post in the former Liberal Government, has been named in divorce proceedings as an adulterer. The wife of former hockey player Tie Domi, has filed for divorce alleging her husband had a sexual relationship with Stronach. The Domis have three children.
Stronach has refused to deny the affair, and the Liberal Party Leader has said the matter is of no consequence.“There’s been a lot written about me, and I’m not going to comment on those allegations—whether they’re true, they’re false or they’re somebody’s opinion,” Stronach told the Sun when questioned about the allegations. Stronach has been married twice, both ending in divorce.
The Liberal Party of Canada was not concerned about the situation. Liberal Party Leader Bill Graham was quoted in the Hamilton Spectator commenting on the Stronach affair saying, “Canadians are well beyond such judgments. I think Canadians have come to a point in our national life where we recognize that private lives of people are private lives. Unless it impinges on their public duties, it is not relevant to Canadians.”
Mary Ellen Douglas of Campaign Life Coalition disagreed.“MPs running for office, whether male or female have to have some integrity if they expect to have the people behind them,” said Douglas in comments to LifeSiteNews.com.“If they are going to create public scandal, they should get a public backlash. Belinda seems to create public scandal wherever she goes and does not seem to think she deserves a public reprimand.”
Graham may have personal reasons for his stand on strict separation between political and personal life. Graham too has left unanswered questions related to illicit sexual affairs in his past. Graham, who is married and has two children, has never denied public allegations that he had a sexual relationship with a juvenile male prostitute.
Lawrence Metherel claimed he began a relationship with Mr. Graham in 1980, when Metherel was 15 years old, in a 2001 interview with Toronto-based Fab magazine. TorStar corporation, the corporation which produces Canada largest daily paper, publishes a weekly Toronto paper called ‘Eye’ which referred to Metherel as “an ex-boyfriend of Graham’s” and Graham’s “spurned lover,” in a 2002 article.