The Latest: Candidates facing sex assault allegations won’t be allowed to run: Scheer
TORONTO — The latest on developments related to Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives, whose former president faces sex assault allegations (all times local):
1 p.m.
Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says any candidate for his party would not be allowed to run if they were facing allegations of sexual assault.
Scheer says he can’t comment on a decision by party officials during the 2015 campaign to allow Ontario MP Rick Dykstra to remain on the ballot despite knowing he had been accused of sexual assault.