The Conservative Party of Canada is adding more detailed police checks to its vetting of candidates and creating a specific policy for handling complaints made against MPs and candidates.
The moves are among six recommendations made by lawyer Carol Nielsen, who was hired by the Conservatives in March 2018 to probe how Rick Dykstra was allowed to continue on as a candidate in the 2015 election after the party learned he was accused of assaulting a woman who worked for another MP.
“Without guiding principles directing the campaign team's response to the situation, each member of the campaign team relied upon his or her own common-sense approach to the situation,” Nielsen wrote in her report. Nielsen said it's unclear whether a better review of the matter would have changed the party's decision to let Dykstra run. But Ray Novak, then-leader Stephen Harper's chief of staff at the time, said last year that had additional information about the matter been known, such as why the police investigation was closed, Dykstra would have been fired as a candidate.
Guy Giorno, who was the national campaign chair in 2015, thought Dykstra should have been fired during the campaign. Last year Giorno called the Nielsen investigation “a sham” and said he would have no confidence in the results, but he was pleased with the findings released Friday. “I'm confident our campaign team now has the tools they need to ensure that and I look forward to Mr. Lefton leading the implementation of Ms. Nielsen's strong recommendations,” Scheer said in a news release.All political parties fired multiple candidates throughout the 2015 campaign for various reasons, often due to racist or sexist posts on social media.
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