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Conservative Party’s national council rejects Sloan’s appeal to run under its banner in next election

By Abbas Rana

Ontario MP Derek Sloan previously said a decision to bar him from running could lead his base to stay home on election day or to turn to rival conservative parties like the People’s Party of Canada or the Maverick Party.

The Conservative Party’s national council rejected the appeal of booted Conservative MP Derek Sloan on Thursday night to be allowed to run as a party candidate in the next election, according to senior Conservative sources.

Mr. Sloan (Hastings-Lennox and Addington, Ont.), who now sits as an Independent and ran unsuccessfully for the Conservative leadership last year, was expelled from the party’s caucus on Jan. 20 because of a “pattern of destructive behaviour” that leader Erin O’Toole (Durham, Ont.) said had become a distraction for Conservatives.

Mr. Sloan has dismissed the charge that he had engaged in a “pattern of destructive behaviour,” saying it was “fabricated.”

 

full story at https://www.hilltimes.com/2021/02/18/conservative-partys-national-council-rejects-controversial-ontario-mp-sloans-appeal-to-be-allowed-to-run-as-conservative-in-the-next-election/284341

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