TORONTO — Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives won a provincial byelection Thursday in northeast Toronto, but it may have come at a cost. A letter distributed under party leader Patrick Brown’s name promised that a PC government would “scrap” updates to the sex-ed curriculum. It would have been a popular promise, Brown acknowledged, saying there was deep opposition to the curriculum in that riding. The Liberals have also questioned why Brown only retracted the sex-ed opposition in English media, when the letter was distributed in other languages spoken widely in the riding. The byelection was triggered by the sudden resignation of Liberal Bas Balkissoon, who had held the riding since 2005.

Source: National Post September 02, 2016 02:26 UTC