12-09-2019 20:54 via election.ctvnews.ca

Green Party candidate dropped after Islamophobic Facebook post emerges

TORONTO --The Green Party has dropped an Ontario candidate after a Facebook post emerged where he suggests sending a pig carcass to Muslims. The party on Thursday accepted the resignation of Erik Schomann, a candidate in the riding of Simcoe North, after the post surfaced online. “The Green Party has zero tolerance for sexism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, misogyny, homophobia or hate speech of any kind,” the Greens wrote in a statement. The post in question features an image of three
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