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.”