Conservative Party’s national council rejects Sloan’s appeal to run under its banner in next election

Ontario MP Derek Sloan previously said a decision to bar him from running could lead his base to stay home on election day or to turn to rival conservative parties like the People's Party of Canada or the Maverick Party.

The national council of the Conservative Party has rejected Ontario MP Derek Sloan's appeal to allow him to carry the party's banner in the next federal election. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

February 18, 2021

The Conservative Party's national council rejected the appeal of booted Conservative MP Derek Sloan on Thursday night to be allowed to run as a party candidate in the next election, according to senior Conservative sources. Mr. Sloan (Hastings-Lennox and Addington, Ont.), who now sits as an Indepen...

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