The Conservatives have cut ties with another candidate, this time in the Montreal riding of Laurier-Sainte-Marie.
Stefan Marquis said he was let go Tuesday over "posts on Twitter" that were deemed to be disqualifying.
"In a call received this morning from one of Quebec's operations managers for the party, I was told without further note that 'certain' individuals within the party had consulted my recent posts on Twitter-X and deemed these sufficient reason to end our political collaboration," Marquis wrote in a post on X. "The call lasted less than a minute."
He did not cite which posts had crossed the line, nor did he give any indication that the party had either.
"While, by its own volition, the CPC chose to abruptly cut loose a devoted ally willing to operate in a proven complicated political landscape, renowned nationwide as unjustly hostile to sound conservative opinions," Marquis continued, the party in so doing desecrated the basic principle of the first of our natural rights: that of liberty."
He argued that opinion should be "respected not only for the sake of the individual with whom the party has entered into a pact of political engagement, but equally for that of the thousands of citizens in the riding whose voice it represents in this form of government we call the representative regime."
"The first principle of democracy is freedom; so said Aristotle in his Politics," he added. "Two thousand three hundred fifty years of instruction from ancient sages have evidently failed to serve as a lesson to the political agents of the third millennium who seem to think otherwise. I am saddened to bear witness to it. Publish a non-vetted tweet on X and expect ostracization from your natural ally. This now appears to be the way of Canadian politics."
The news came just hours after Conservative Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore candidate Mark McKenzie was let go following revelations he joked about Justin Trudeau receiving the death penalty.
Within an hour of learning about McKenzie's comments, the Conservatives announced he was no longer welcome in the party. Leader Pierre Poilievre called it "unacceptable," making it clear that, "we fired him."
