Derek Sloan says he will sit as an independent in the House of Commons after the Conservative Party caucus voted to oust him on Jan. 20. Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole said on Jan. 18 that he is going to remove Sloan from the party over a $131 donation from Paul Fromm to his leadership campaign, saying “acceptance of a donation from a well-known white supremacist is far worse than a gross error of judgment or failure of due diligence.” Sloan had said that he wasn’t aware of that donation as his campaign had received over 13,000 contributions, and that the Conservative Party is also responsible for not flagging it as it had taken a cut out of that donation as it is standard. “If I am guilty of something, they are guilty of something,” Sloan said in a Facebook video late Monday night, Jan. 18. “After further investigation, it was clear …