TORONTO – The head of a group opposed to Ontario’s sex education says she had discussions with Patrick Brown‘s office during a recent byelection about what commitments the Progressive Conservatives leader could make to garner their support.
The president of Parents as First Educators writes in a letter to supporters today that the Brown’s chief of staff asked her to send him suggestions for how the PC leader could satisfy her supporters.
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Tanya Granic Allen says she and Nicolas Pappalardo went back and forth during the Scarborough-Rouge River byelection with what she believes was “direct input from Patrick Brown on language.”
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After the wording of a controversial letter promising to “scrap” the Liberals’ sex-ed curriculum was settled on, Allen says Pappalardo told her “scrap” was Brown’s “personal preference” instead of using the word repeal.
Pappalardo did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did Brown.
Earlier in the day, Brown defended privately promising to social conservatives last year that he would repeal the curriculum, saying it was a topic in the leadership race at the time and that fears about the curriculum were “exaggerated.”
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