Patrick Brown was the victim of a ‘political hit,’ says his sister
TORONTO — A longtime Progressive Conservative’s comments that she had flagged rumours about Patrick Brown to his campaign team weeks before he stepped down raised questions Friday about the party’s own processes for dealing with sexual misconduct allegations.
Ontario legislator Lisa MacLeod said she shared information about Brown “two or three times” as recently as December but didn’t know whether it had been brought to the attention of others in the party.
The allegations related to “inappropriate touching,” among other things, and were similar to those that prompted Brown to resign this week, she said. MacLeod said she was told they were unfounded.
“There’s been a lot of speculation and people have heard a lot of different things throughout a period of time. So, there were lots of things that were percolating that a lot of people heard,” she said.