"Significant allegations of fraud" are related to the financing rules of the Canadian Election Law
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Canadian Press
Stephanie Taylor
Patrick Brown is federal after the vote Disqualified from the conservative leadership race of, has already begun to be mailed, and his campaign is counterattacking what is called an anonymous claim.
"This is a blame and blame that breaks trust with hundreds of thousands of Canadians who have embraced Patrick Brown's modern and comprehensive Conservative vision. It's a democratic act, "his campaign was written early on. Wednesday morning.
"This is a prosecution of (the Conservative Party of Canada), a party that is not serious about winning the general election," Brown's campaign continued. "It's embarrassing, but not for us."
Ian Brody, chairman of the Leadership Election Organizing Committee, announced a surprising move late Tuesday night, and the party announced a surprising move. He said he was aware of the "serious allegations of fraud" by the Brown campaign.
The allegations are related to the financing rules of the Canadian Election Act, Brody said in writing, but provided no further details.
Brody said in a statement that the party's chief returnee had raised concerns to Mayor Brumpton, Brown, and asked for a written response. He also decided to withdraw the provisional membership list from his campaign.
Brody said the reaction from Brown's campaign did not meet his concerns, and the Supreme Return Officer chose to vote in a vote at the conference on Tuesday night, the Leadership Election Organizing Committee. Recommended to disqualify him.
Brody said he would share what the party had with Election Canada.
He did his best to provide time for both him and the party's chief return officer to be fair and refute the allegations to Brown, a former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives. Said that.
"None of these issues affect the integrity of the vote itself," Brodie said.
"I felt it was important to provide a transparent response to the party members on this issue, but since this issue is currently under further investigation, this is the issue. I won't talk about it anymore. "
Brown's campaign challenged the characteristics of this process.
"This decision is based on an anonymous claim. Our campaign does not provide full details or evidence of these allegations and is the basis of an event in a proper process. Does not meet the requirements. "
It accused the party of not having "enough time" to participate in the "fishing expedition" and respond to the campaign, but "still to all the weird demands and unfounded claims. I responded. " He also said he learned through the media on Tuesday night about the meeting where the campaign was disqualified and decided.
The campaign said it was consulting with the legal team.
Brown's campaign also blamed the party for making this decision in favor of Pierre Poirievre.
"Attempts to silence the Canadian and avoid democratic values through this unfounded disqualification are the only way to ensure his victory," the statement said.
As of late Tuesday night, the Poilievre campaign had not commented on the news.
Conservatives announce the winners of the leadership race in Otawa on September 10th.
Other candidates for the race are conservative MPs Reslin Lewis and Scott Hisson, and former Quebec Prime Minister. Former independent members of the Ontario Parliament, Jean Charest and Roman Bubber.
A party spokesman said Tuesday night that a large number of ballot packages had already been emailed to members.
Last week, the party said about 675,000 members had signed up to vote for a new conservative leader. The party described this as an unprecedented number for federal parties.
Erin O'Toole was elected leader in 2020 with a qualified voting base of approximately 270,000 members. Earlier this year, the party said it had 161,000 active and current members across Canada. About 48,000 of them were scheduled to expire by the June membership deadline.
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