Canadian PM Justin Trudeau seems to have forgotten  an incident which happened in 2000 that he groped a journalist.Justin Trudeau has publicly addressed allegations that he groped a reporter at an event 18 years ago, saying he does not recall any “negative interactions” taking place that day.The allegation has dominated political discussion in Canada in recent days after it was highlighted in the media by a blogger last month.

At the time, Trudeau was a 28-year-old teacher and had been attending a music festival sponsored by a beer company in British Columbia. The festival was raising money to support avalanche safety, a cause Trudeau had become involved with after his brother Michel died in an avalanche in 1998.Days after the event, an unsigned editorial appeared in the Creston Valley Advance, a local newspaper, accusing Trudeau of “groping” and “inappropriately handling” an unnamed female reporter who was covering the event.

While the editorial offered no specifics on what had happened, it claimed the woman felt “blatantly disrespected” and Trudeau had apologised for his behaviour. The editorial alleged Trudeau to have said. that he felt sorry for the incident and also added that he didn’t know that  the journalist was reporting for a national newspaper.This is the first time Trudeau had to face these kind of allegations after he became the Prime Minister of Canada.