High-profile Ontario Liberals return fire, say Erskine-Smith’s style of politics rubs them ‘the wrong way’

A three-member Ontario Liberal Party arbitration committee is scheduled to meet May 20 to review Nathaniel Erskine-Smith’s appeal against the provincial Scarborough-Southwest nomination election result, according to Liberal sources. In the meantime, Ontario Liberals are pushing back.

Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith has said that regardless of the outcome of his provincial nomination election appeal, he will step down from his federal seat in June. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

May 18, 2026

After losing the provincial party nomination contest in Scarborough-Southwest last weekend, Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith—who is challenging the results and alleging "serious irregularities" in the nomination—is accusing longtime party stalwarts, whom he described a...

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