Former Ajax mayor Steve Parish has been removed as the Ontario NDP candidate for Ajax, said NDP leader Andrea Horwath in a statement on Monday. “The NDP’s vetting process gave us confidence that Mr. Parish does not hold antisemitic views,” said Horwath. “However, our party is committed to naming and correcting injustice, and vowing to do better — and as a candidate he has not met the mark.” Horwath said Parish’s failure to denounce a decision to name a street in Ajax “after a high-ranking German officer in the Second World War” showed a failure to understand the harmfulness of...
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