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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
It sounds like the Federal Liberals dropped the ball on vetting Hehr if this behaviour was kicked up the ladder to the Provincial party whip.
You can bet now that the ability to run in an election for an established party is going to include a really deep background check, plus interviews with anyone that you've ever dealt with.
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None of this was a career ender until about 6 months ago.
The president of the United States admitted to sexually assaulting women and he got elected.
As a political calculation you could've assumed 8 months or a year ago that this kind of thing wasn't very damaging precisely because of how institutionalized it was.
I.E. If you think it's damaging politically it's almost always something you also believe to be uncommon. If everyone's doing it it is not as much of a problem.
This seems like the obvious calculation that was made in the Ontario PC party.