The chair of the federal Conservative party's leadership election organizing committee privately expressed concerns around Patrick Brown's history while vetting him as a potential candidate, according to documentation obtained by The Canadian Press.
It suggests that Ian Brodie raised questions about Brown's financial situation in a late-March telephone call with someone he was consulting as part of the vetting process after the former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader had declared his intention to join the race.
In announcing the decision to disqualify Brown last Tuesday, Brodie had said only that the committee had been made aware of "serious allegations of wrongdoing" related to financing rules under the Canada Elections Act. "He won't be getting into internal LEOC sausage-making," Baran wrote in an email. "There is nothing to be gained by setting that kind of precedent and breaking professional discipline."
Documentation of the March phone call indicates Brodie conveyed that members of the committee had received a dossier of documents from an anonymous source sent to their private email addresses. According to the documentation of the call, Brodie expressed that there were questions around Brown's income and how he could have afforded the home.
Although Brown was elected mayor of Brampton, Ont., in October 2018 — less than a year after the story broke — the settlement seemed to pave the way for bigger ambitions: he declared his intention to run for federal Conservative leader just four days later.
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