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The cold-blooded calculus of ditching toxic candidates

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Liberal Paul Chiang , Conservative Aaron Gunn and Conservative candidates have been in hot water for years .

Liberal leader Mark Carney defended Chiang and Gunn , who were both predicted to win.

Why were both leaders willing to risk reputational damage from candidates whose untempered comments caused pain and offence to swaths of Canadians ?.

Poilievre likely feels indebted to Gunn whose video stream amounts to a two-year campaign to elect the Conservative leader.

It’s also possible that deep down, he sympathizes with Gunn because of his own experience.

Standing behind candidates who express reprehensible views smacks of political expediency and feeds public cynicism.

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