A candidate running for Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives was deemed by the party's provincial counterpart to be 'extremely controversial and problematic' and accused of promoting online conspiracy theories, according to a past vetting report.
Last Updated Saturday, September 14, 2019 7:48PM EDTOTTAWA - A candidate running for Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives was deemed by the party's provincial counterpart to be "extremely controversial and problematic" and accused of promoting online conspiracy theories, according to a past vetting report obtained by CTV News.
The report’s researchers found she posted a video by a Romanian conspiracy theorist who believes international organizations, with the consent of the Catholic church, are covertly trying to depopulate the world using “chemical and biological methods.”Many of the social media messages cited in the report are reposts by Melek of other people’s posts.
The Ontario PCs were then led by Patrick Brown, who held more liberal views on sex education and other social issues than his successor, Doug Ford, now Ontario’s premier. In a statement forwarded to CTV News from the Conservative Party on Friday, Melek wrote, “While these are almost entirely shared articles from more than half a decade ago, I do understand how some of them may be offensive, and I do regret that as well as sharing them.”
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