WOODSLEE, ONT. — As the New Democrats demanded Elections Ontario probe 12 Progressive Conservative nomination contests, Tory Leader Doug Ford signalled he is ready to remove more PC candidates if necessary.“Once new revelations come to us, we sit down just like I did with the Brampton East candidate and we’ll address it,” Ford said Wednesday on a farm here in the NDP-held riding of Essex, near Windsor.“We’ll address it immediately and, as I said over and over again, we won’t tolerate anything along those lines as we did with the Brampton East candidate,” he said.That was a reference to Simmer Sandhu, who resigned his candidacy one week ago after being linked to an alleged data breach at the 407 ETR toll highway, where personal information of 60,000 users was compromised.York Regional Police’s major fraud squad is investigating that case as an “inside theft.”Sandhu, a former 407 ETR employee, has denied any wrongdoing. He is not been charged with any offences and has called allegations against him “anonymous” and “totally baseless.”“The election is too important to get caught up in the issues surrounding any one person,” he said May 16. Sandhu has been replaced by Sudeep Verma as the candidate in Brampton East.Several Hwy. 407 users have contacted the Star to say they have received “robocalls” from the Conservatives canvassing them for support in the June 7 election.“How did (they) get our phone numbers? The only common thread is that my sons and I have is that we all, at one time or another, have driven the 407,” said one motorist, who called to report unusual election-related phone calls to his family.In a dozen separate letters sent to Elections Ontario on Wednesday, the NDP asked Ontario’s chief elections officer Greg Essensa to investigate the PC nominations in Brampton West; Brampton Centre; Brampton South; Burlington; Mississa ...
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