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Another Canadian Conservative candidate removed from campaign

Published 2015-09-15, 04:26 p/m
© Reuters. Another Canadian Conservative candidate removed from campaign
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NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept 15 (Reuters) - A
Canadian Conservative candidate who made sexually explicit and
racist comments on social media has been removed from the
party's lineup, the latest candidate to get dumped by one of the
three major parties ahead of the election.
Blair Dale, who was vying for a Newfoundland district in the
Oct. 19 vote, was pulled from the campaign on Tuesday morning,
Conservative spokesman Kory Teneycke told reporters traveling
with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's campaign.
The move comes after a blogger posted a series of online
comments Dale made about women and ethnic minorities on various
social media platforms, including a dating site and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB).
Harper's right-leaning Conservatives, who have ruled the
country for nearly a decade, are in a tight three-way race with
the center-left Liberals and New Democratic Party.
All three parties have dismissed candidates during the
campaign, often after it was discovered they made embarrassing
or offensive statements on social media, sometimes years before
they sought political office.
The Conservatives have been hit by more departures than the
Liberals or NDP, and hold the honor of the most ignominious
exit, by a candidate who - in his former life as a service
technician - was caught on a hidden camera urinating into a
coffee mug during a house call to repair a leaky sink in 2012.

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