Bob Kilger sex rap?!

Will allegations scuttle MP’s bid for Speaker?

FRANK Magazine

24 January 2001 (p. 4)

There was much smug joy on the Liberal benches election night and Liberal Whip Bobby Kilger, re-elected once again in Stormont-Dundas, was particularly expansive.

“I got a great present tonight. Christmas came early for me,” he burbled to reporters after his hard-fought 2,000-vote victory over CA dweeb Guy Lauzon.

In addition to another four years of gainful public service and a top-up of the old parliamentary pension, Bob’s son Chad, a forward with the Edmonton Oilers, was soon traded to the Montreal Canadians, leaving him much closer to the ol’ homestead.

Even better, Kilger’s name keeps popping up as the PMO’s preferred candidate for Speaker of the House. Bob’s nut-cracking performance as Whip leads observers to believe Kilger could be trusted to run a House without any pretensions of independence, reliably giving Crouton a partisan home court advantage. The perktastic post comes complete with car and driver, an extra $52,000 in salary, the official residence at Kingsmere, the lavish House of Commons apartments, plus, plus, plus.

Kilger’s experience as an NHL linesman would lend an air of specious objectivity, but opposition MPs and independent-minded  Liberals would be unlikely to favour someone who so clearly appears to be the PM’s poodle.

And then there are certain allegations of sexual impropriety, which surfaced ominously during the election campaign.

An all-candidates meeting in Cornwall was scandalized when local shit disturber Dick Nadeau stepped up to the microphone, demanding to know how Kilger could stand for reelection when criminal charges were pending against him?

The meeting moderator immediately spluttered that the question was out of order, but Kilger brushed him aside and read from a prepared statement:

“I can assure you the allegations pertaining to me contained on the website are untrue. I can further assure you I’ve not been contacted by police with respect to any investigation.”

The website in question is Nadeau’s www.projecttruth2.com, an online compilation of information on the ongoing story of sexual abuse, pedophilia and coverup in Cornwall involving clergy, lawyers and other prominent members of the community. The brewing scandal has had Nepean-Carleton MPP Gary Guzzo clamoring for a public inquiry for years. So far, some 114 charges have been laid against 15 individuals.

Kilger, despite representing the area in the House of Commons,  has not been conspicuously vocal about the problem.

Nadeau, whose site names many names, has been repeatedly threatened with legal action. Such threats against his web host shut down Nadeau’s original website.

The allegations date back to 1982, and Kilger’s distinctly unglamorous and short-lived post-hockey career as manager of a St. Hubert’s chicken franchise (valuable private sector experience, shurely?!—ed.)

The complainant, a 19-year-old employee of the chicken hut at the time of the alleged incident,  made a statement to Cornwall police in August, but ended up having to repeat her allegations to the Ontario Provincial Police.

 Kilger’s brother in law, Sgt. Brian Snyder, is a member of the Cornwall police force, but this seems to be  mere coincidence. Despite the force’s uneven record in investigating sex allegations, the case went to the OPP for jurisdictional reasons, the alleged incident took place outside Cornwall city limits.

Similarly, Cornwall Crown Attorney Murray MacDonald is not handling the file, having handed off to regional Crown Jim Stewart. So far, no charges have been laid.

Kilger could not be reached for comment.

[theinquiry.ca note: Charges were not laid]