How the Crown tackled the ‘myth of the ideal victim' at the Hockey Canada trial
The term 'rape' disappeared from Canada's Criminal Code in 1983. But some purported myths and stereotypes about rape victims have arguably never disappeared from the collective conscience.
Which is how we've arrived at the wildly divergent closing submissions in the Hockey Canada trial of five former world gold medal junior hockey players.
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