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RSS FeedsDefiant Patrick Brown shocks Ontario Tories by joining leadership race
(The Star Food)

 
 

17 february 2018 13:18:56

 
Defiant Patrick Brown shocks Ontario Tories by joining leadership race
(The Star Food)
 


Ousted former Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown is running again for the right to battle Premier Kathleen Wynne in the June 7 election — even though he has been banished from the Tory caucus at Queen’s Park.In a bizarre twist to a saga that has plunged the official opposition Conservatives into further chaos, Brown on Friday filed the paperwork to join the PC leadership race, prompting rivals to blast his stunning decision.“I think my name has been cleared and now it’s about getting Ontario back on track,” Brown proclaimed as he led reporters and cameras on a chase down the stairs at party headquarters and along Adelaide St. to a taxi.He said the party has been “hijacked” and his People’s Guarantee election platform abandoned. Brown’s demeanour was a marked change from three weeks ago, when he resigned as leader after a teary news conference over a CTV News report that alleged sexual impropriety involving two teenage girls.The leadership gambit came just two hours before the deadline for entering the March 10 contest.But party president Jag Badwal cautioned that Brown’s leadership application must still pass a vetting process “in the same manner as the other declared candidates.”Furious leadership rivals blasted Brown’s stunning decision and questioned his claim to having cleared his name.Brown called the allegations in the CTV report “fictitious” and has threatened to sue the network.“Our focus should remain squarely on beating Kathleen Wynne in less than 100 days. This is a distraction from that and I am disappointed,” said Caroline Mulroney on Twitter.“Patrick Brown made the right decision to step down. A leadership election is not the place for him to try to clear his name,” said Mulroney, a rookie PC candidate in York-Simcoe.Doug Ford echoed that, saying the “party is objectively stronger without Patrick Brown.”“The ...


 
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