OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer promised an independent, third-party investigation of the Rick Dykstra controversy Wednesday as his own caucus members wondered aloud how the Ontario MP was allowed to run in 2015 despite facing serious allegations of sexual assault. Scheer said the results of the investigation will be made public. Those ideas grew out of the Conservative caucus retreat earlier this year in Victoria, but were in announced Wednesday in tandem with the investigation. Scheer — like many Conservatives — has insisted he personally knew nothing of the allegations against Dykstra or former Ontario Conservative leader Patrick Brown prior to a series of media reports that led to the pair’s political downfall. “We need a process that we’re satisfied with, because clearly we’re not satisfied with what happened during the election.”What happened with Dykstra isn’t the only ongoing investigation.

Source: National Post January 31, 2018 21:00 UTC