iPolitics By Rachel Emmanuel. Published on Jan 20, 2021 4:10pm Rookie MP Derek Sloan was voted out of the Conservative Party on Wednesday. (Photo from Sloan s Twitter)
The Conservative Party caucus has voted to expel social conservative MP Derek Sloan after it came to light that a known white nationalist had donated to his leadership campaign.
Sources say a majority of 121 sitting Conservative MPs voted to remove him from their caucus on Wednesday.
Sloan has represented the northeastern-Ontario riding of Hastings Lennox and Addington since 2019.
The controversy erupted earlier this week after Press Progress reported that Paul Fromm, who self-identifies as a “white nationalist” and has ties to neo-Nazi groups, donated $131 to Sloan’s leadership campaign under the name Frederick P. Fromm.
iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Jan 5, 2021 5:47pm Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his daily media availability in mid-May. Andrew Meade/iPolitics
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As the public fumes about politicians who saw fit to travel internationally over the holidays while they followed public health advice and stayed at home, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned everyone who saw fit to do so.
iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Dec 16, 2020 5:50pm Conservative Party Leader Erin O Toole (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics)
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Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has spent the day back-peddling on comments he made last month about how the residential school system “was meant to try and provide education,” which have caused a stir in recent days. The comments were in a video recorded as he spoke to the Ryerson Conservatives club.
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iPolitics AM: Premiers, PM talk health-transfer payments via webcam By Kady O Malley. Published on Dec 10, 2020 6:31am Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could be heading back out on the committee circuit, courtesy of a Conservative opposition motion. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics)
Even before Canada’s provincial and territorial premiers are set to fire up their respective webcams for their much-anticipated virtual meet-up with
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau later this morning, they seem to have reached a tentative pre-emptive consensus that they probably won’t be logging off with a clear commitment from Ottawa for a $28-billion boost to health transfer payments.
Quebec Premier François Legault has already said that he “doesn’t expect” Trudeau to officially agree to the premiers’ call for the federal government to increase its contribution to health care costs during today’s meeting, although he’s “hoping that the money … will arrive before the next electi