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I agree. I see a very ugly gender bias in this. It looks like restorative justice against men generally. He was a high status figure, and visibly not an "old stock" Canadian.  
 
What would happen if a man, years after the fact, made a complaint that he had sex that he didn't like? He would be laughed out of the police station, with the advice to grow up, and in the future complain in a credible time period, and please bring evidence.  
 
One of the horrifying aspects of this is that if it hadn't been for the 5,000 emails preparing "evidence", and the one witness sitting in on court prior to giving testimony, if they could have just managed to have told one story, and made it believable, Mr Ghomeshi could be on his way to jail.  
 
I'm troubled by a system that would display such gender bias, and would entertain story telling long after the fact as evidence.  
 
This reminds me of the witch hunts of the 1990's, in which good people had their lives destroyed, or spent time in jail over outrageous accusations of satanic cult ritual abuse. It took prosecutors and QB judges to make that a reality. Scapegoating never seems to go away.