ADAMS: Scarborough Southwest proves the Ontario Liberals have a sickness they can’t hide

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I know the stench of the Scarborough Southwest Liberal association firsthand because I lived it. In January, I published an account of being groped by federal riding president Edward Nixon at a political event. He was drunk, aggressive, and fixated on a friend for more than fifteen minutes while touching my thigh uninvited.

When I confronted what had happened, the party met me with silence. No investigation. No discipline. That silence told me everything I needed to know about whose interests the Ontario Liberal Party actually protects. The answer was again confirmed this weekend in spectacularly ugly fashion.

Ahsanul Hafiz just won the Ontario Liberal nomination in Scarborough Southwest by 19 votes over federal MP Nate Erskine–Smith. It was a race the party establishment openly rigged—purging nearly 1,800 memberships and then, according to credible allegations, stuffing at least 30 more ballots into the count than were handed out.

In a race decided by 19 votes, there were more ballots cast than voters present.