Five more women have come forward to say they were harassed by Liberal-appointed Senator Colin Kenny, including through inappropriate touching and phone calls, Radio-Canada's Brigitte Bureau has learned.
They join two other women who told CBC News last fall that they were harassed by Kenny, who has been a senator for 30 years and once chaired the Senate's powerful national security and defence committee.
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The Senate is currently investigating one of those claims.
The Senate refuses to talk about the investigation into Kenny. It won't release the investigator's name to CBC News. Women who tried to contact the investigator through the Senate to tell their stories did not have their calls returned.
None of these allegations have been proven in court and Kenny has never been charged. The senator, who recused himself from caucus, said last fall that he was prevented from commenting on the allegations because of the ongoing Senate investigation. He denied the original allegations, calling them "bogus" and "fabricated."
Four of the five women making new allegations recently came to a CBC studio to tell their stories. Some of them were meeting for the very first time. CBC agreed to conceal their identities because they say they fear for their physical safety. The women knew Kenny from the Senate or from one of the two tanning salons he used to own in Ottawa