Tue Mar 22, 2022 – 3:40 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – On Monday, Ontario Party leader Derek Sloan sat down with LifeSiteNews to discuss his bid to be Premier of Canada’s largest province in the coming June election.
Sloan is a former MP for the Conservative Party of Canada, who was ousted from the party after the 2020 leadership race based on fallacious claims that he had willingly accepted a donation from a white supremacist.
He addressed the issue in the interview. “The excuse that was given was that I received a donation from an unsavoury character,” he said, and added that it was a “bizarre accusation” considering that the donations went through an official party software platform, and he received “13,000 separate donations.”
“There’s many people that donated to us that that I don’t know personally and I don’t know much about them,” he said. “So this was a red herring. It was used as an excuse to eject me.”
Looking for new opportunities to engage in the political scene, Sloan decided to run for the Ontario Party, a party established in 2018 as an alternative for conservative Ontarians who are fed up with the status
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