OTTAWA — Patrick Brown wants to appeal a decision made by federal Conservatives overseeing the party's leadership race to disqualify him. A notice of a
OTTAWA — Patrick Brown wants to appeal a decision made by federal Conservatives overseeing the party’s leadership race to disqualify him.
The party’s leadership election committee chose — with a vote split 11 to six — on Tuesday evening to disqualify Brown from the contest, based on what Brodie called “serious allegations of wrongdoing.” “This Kafkaesque process led to a politically motivated and preordained result and is not consistent with the values that should be upheld by this party,” reads the notice of appeal co-signed by Henein and Smith.
Speaking to The Canadian Press earlier in the day, Brown,who is the mayor of Brampton, Ont., said the committee was presented with an anonymous allegation that someone working on his campaign was being paid by a corporation.Brown said they requested information about the identity of the individual or company, but it was not provided.
Brown, a former leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives, said his campaign signed up more than 150,000 new people to join the party. Many of them hailed from cultural communities in some of the country’s largest cities, where the party has struggled to find support in the past few federal elections.
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