Controversial MP Derek Sloan was kicked out of the Conservative caucus this week, a move party leader Erin O'Toole said was due to a “pattern of destructive behavior” that had become a distraction.
O'Toole's, who defeated Sloan for the party leader position last summer, said Sloan's dismissal was not solely over a $131 donation he'd taken from a white nationalist, and came after hours of heated debate within caucus that saw MPs castigate both Sloan for his record and O'Toole for how he'd handled the issue. The donation to Sloan was made during the leadership campaign, in which Sloan came in fourth place.
In a seven-part tweet, Sloan responded to his expulsion and attacked O'Toole.
"My ejection from caucus shows an absolute cowardice and failure to address real issues that animate much of our base?" he said. "This party does not belong to Erin O’Toole it belongs to the members."
Sloan's backers note that the donation went through the Conservative Party itself, which took a 10% cut, and that it was so small that his treasurer (who might have seen it, not Sloan himself) likely never saw it.
Some have also suggested that the leak about the donation might have come from O'Toole himself.
The Ontario MP said he will now sit in the Federal Parliament as an Independent and will continue to fight for conservatives voices.
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