Eastern Ontario MPP Amanda Simard is leaving the Progressive Conservative caucus and will sit as an independent. Ontario MPP Amanda Simard is quitting the Progressive Conservative caucus of Premier Doug Ford to sit as an Independent, Simard is opposed to Ford cutting the office of a French language rights watchdog and cancelling a planned French language university in Toronto. "We wish Amanda Simard well as she sits as an independent," said Ford's spokesperson, Simon Jefferies, in a statement Thursday. Premier Doug Ford's director of media relations issues a statement about Amanda Simard quitting the PC caucus. 0:34Simard's decision goes against the advice given to her by a long-serving francophone MPP in Prescott-Russell.

Source: CBC News November 29, 2018 12:39 UTC