Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown, left, joins the “LGBTory” contingent at Toronto Pride.
TORONTO, September 29, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party and leader Patrick Brown are once again facing controversy and the ire of party grassroots over their top-down leadership and treatment of pro-life advocates who want a place in the party.
A social conservative announced last week that the party nixed his candidacy in favor of its hand-picked nominee even though he’d sold “thousands” of memberships.
“To say that I’m disappointed is an understatement,” Nick Lauwers wrote on Facebook. “We’ve worked extremely hard to get to this point.”
Lauwers had campaigned in the Hamilton-area rural riding of Flamborough-Glenbrook for more than a year and had clocked in more than 10,000 kilometres and up to 5,000 phone calls when party brass told him in July “someone else would be chosen.”
He persevered until the party’s decision was “recently” confirmed, Lauwers wrote September 21.
Hamilton councillor Donna Skelly, who had been courted by the PC Party, will be the riding’s candidate in an October 5 nomination meeting, the Hamilton Spectator reported.
Meanwhile, another social conservative told The Rebel’s Dave Menzies that the party disqualified him
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