(National Post) The Conservative Party has disqualified Jim Karahalios from the race following complaints over his behaviour.
The party did not say exactly what caused the disqualification, but there have been at least two incidents where people complained about his behaviour.
Karahalios had infuriated many by circulating a letter that targeted Erin O’Toole’s campaign chair, Walied Soliman, a well-known Toronto lawyer. Soliman is Muslim, and the letter accused O’Toole of promoting Sharia law by having Soliman on his campaign. “Mr. Karahalios’s bigotry will result in electoral obliteration for our Party,” O’Toole said in a statement at the time.
Shortly after, a race-relations group lodged a complaint with the party about a Facebook post where Karahalios boasted about the reaction to his Soliman letter, including screenshots of people calling him a racist on Twitter.
