January 27, 2021
By Nate Smelle
After finding out that Hastings Lennox and Addington’s MP Derek Sloan had accepted a donation from a known neo-Nazi, last Wednesday the Conservative Party voted to kick the controversial social conservative politician out of the caucus.
Although Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole previously defended Sloan when he came under fire last spring for making racist and false allegations regarding Canada’s chief public health officer Theresa Tam, his tolerance of the MP’s antics have evaporated. Explaining the Conservative caucus’s reasons for expelling Sloan in a statement released Jan. 20, O’Toole said it was “not because of one specific event, but because of a pattern of destructive behaviour involving multiple incidents and disrespect towards the Conservative team for over a year. These actions have been a consistent distraction from our efforts to grow the Party and focus on the work we need to do.”
By Nate Smelle
Since Hastings Lennox and Addington MP Derek Sloan unseated our area’s former MP Mike Bossio in 2019, he has garnered the attention of the media nationwide. Though some might believe that in politics any attention from the press is good press, in Sloan’s case the seemingly ever-growing string of scandals attached to him has now become a sort of ball and chain.
On Monday, Jan. 18 federal Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole decided that the weight bogging down our local MP had grown too heavy for the party to carry him any further. Only a few hours after PressProgress broke the news that Sloan had accepted a donation from a known neo-Nazi last August, O’Toole released a scathing statement in which he indicated that there was no longer any room for the social conservative MP within the party.
UPDATED: Jan. 21, 2021
News broke early Monday evening that Hastings Lennox and Addington’s Conservative MP Derek Sloan had accepted a donation from infamous Canadian neo-Nazi Frederick Paul Fromm. The article, published by
PressProgress, revealed that last August, Fromm – a known white supremacist and Holocaust denier – made a $131 donation to Sloan’s bid to become leader of the federal Conservative Party.
While Sloan was unavailable for comment, he took to Twitter to address the scandal. Attempting to distance himself from his neo-Nazi supporter, he wrote “Today, at approximately 4 p.m. eastern time, I became aware of a
PressProgress article that brought to light that Paul Fromm, a person with known connections to racist groups, donated $131 to my campaign. My campaign raised well over $1,300,000 and had over 13,000 separate donations. On any given day we had upwards of hundreds of different donations, and my team, which was run in many cases by volunteers, processe
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Another round of COVID related funding has been announced by the Ontario government.
Hastings Lennox and Addington MPP Daryl Kramp says the money will help municipalities to enter the new year without operating deficits from
this year.
Kramp says the almost $700 million dollars in additional COVID financial relief is in addition to the cash in phase one of the federal-provincial Safe Restart Agreement announced in the summer.