Mon Mar 20, 2023 – 6:45 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The Conservative Party of Canada’s (CPC) National Candidate Selection Committee in a majority vote chose to keep in place a ruling that disqualified pro-life Gerrit Van Dorland from running as a nomination candidate in an upcoming byelection in Oxford, Ontario.
LifeSiteNews has learned from a source close to the CPC that on Saturday the Committee upheld its exclusion of Van Dorland after its National Council voted 11-3 with one abstention to uphold his ban.
The National Council had first voted last week to ban Van Dorland from running as a nomination candidate in a 3-2 vote.
It also appears CPC leader Pierre Poilievre was in favor of keeping Van Dorland’s ban in place, according to information sent to LifeSiteNews.
“He (Poilievre) could’ve even expressed displeasure at the practice of discrimination against social conservatives, so as to send the message that he doesn’t want this sort of skullduggery to continue,” LifeSiteNews’ source said.
“Our intel says that the pressure from the Leader’s office was to uphold the disqualification.”
Van Dorland sent LifeSiteNews his statement regarding his unsuccessful appeal, which he also posted to Facebook over the weekend.
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