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Ontario Liberals suspend Oshawa candidate over social media post

Published Feb 22, 2025 at 3:31pm

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Ontario Liberals suspend Oshawa candidate over social media post

Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie makes an announcement in Toronto on Friday, February 21, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young CHY/

Ontario's Liberals have suspended their candidate in Oshawa over an inflammatory social media post.

The suspension for Viresh Bansal comes after several Liberal candidates called on leader Bonnie Crombie to dump him.

Bansal posted a response in 2023 to an NDP statement on the killing of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government had "credible allegations" linking agents of the Indian government to the fatal shooting in B.C.

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