Ontario's Progressive Conservative leader now says it was a "mistake" to pledge to scrap the Liberal government's sex-ed curriculum if his party wins the 2018 election. In an op-ed in the Toronto Star Monday, Brown says it was a mistake for the Scarborough-Rouge River campaign to send out a letter saying he would scrap the curriculum because he will not. He says sex education is important "to combat homophobia, and raise important issues like consent, mental health, bullying, and gender identity." I do not want people voting in Scarborough-Rouge River thinking I will scrap sex education. "Patrick Brown campaigned to become leader on a pro-family platform, promising to protect children from the radical sex education curriculum of Kathleen Wynne," McVety wrote.

Source: CBC News August 29, 2016 22:21 UTC