The committee organizing the Conservative Party leadership race says that disqualified candidate Patrick Brown was well aware of the allegations against him, contrary to what he has stated in his defence.
In an email to party members on July 8, chair of the Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) Ian Brodie sought to reassure that the move to disqualify Brown earlier this week was justified.
“I would love to share all that we have. But we have legal restrictions of what we are to say when we are dealing with allegations of breaking federal law. That’s why we referred this case to Elections Canada,” Brodie wrote….