Spoken like a true Tory
It has come to my attention that a slate of candidates running for office at the University of Toronto is claiming to have the endorsement of the Conservative club at University of Toronto at Erindale.
As the President of the Ontario Campus Conservatives, the organization that oversees all Conservative campus clubs in this province, after discussions with the President of the Campus Conservatives club for all of U of T’s campuses, I feel that it is my duty to inform you that our organization has never endorsed [the “Progress”] slate.
I have gone through several exchanges with the representative of the “Vote Progress” slate, and up to this point they have not named a person who they claim has endorsed them. But the slate continues to use this endorsement.
I have now exhausted all reasonable options to persuade this slate to do the right thing and take down the endorsement from a club not authorized to use our organization’s name. Thus, I will ask our lawyers to investigate the issue and pursue all avenues available to ensure that our name and good faith is not abused by those who aim to use it to promote their agenda.
University of Toronto students should ask themselves whether they wish to be represented by a slate that refuses to take down an endorsement from a club that may be open the University of Toronto’s student government to lawsuits.
Kasra Nejatian
President, Ontario Campus Conservatives
