After sitting on this story for weeks, the CBC chimes in.

This is about hypocrisy — not about what did or did not happen at a music festival 18 years ago.

It is about “believing women,” until it happens to you; about taking all allegations of sexual misconduct seriously, except if they happen to pass some arbitrary expiration date. It is about employing an unwavering zero-tolerance policy, which, in practice, ends up showing some tolerance for the man at the top.