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3 Our Court has rejected the notion that complainants in sexual assault cases have a higher tendency than other complainants to fabricate stories based on “ulterior motives” and are therefore less worthy of belief. Neither the law, nor judicial experience, nor social science research supports this generalization. (See Seaboyer, supra, at pp. 652 and 690, per L’Heureux-Dubé J., dissenting in part; R. v. W. (R.), [1992] 2 S.C.R. 122, at p. 134; R. v. François, [1994] 2 S.C.R. 827; W. (G.), supra; A. McGillivray, “R. v. Bauder: Seductive Children, Safe Rapists, and Other Justice Tales” (1998), 25 Man. L.J. 359, at p. 381; M. Burt, “Rape Myths and Acquaintance Rape”, in A. Parrot and L. Bechhofer, eds., Acquaintance Rape: The Hidden Crime (1991), 26, at p. 28; L. Holmstrom and A. Burgess, The Victim of Rape: Institutional Reactions (1983), at pp. 174-79.)
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