Last week saw the Conservatives drop five candidates over comments they had made in the past, while three Liberal candidates were dismissed or resigned for the same reason.
The dismissals took place ahead of the April 7 deadline for candidates to register to run in the federal election.
If parties find past comments from candidates that may be problematic to their campaign and want to drop them, they will be unable to register replacements after April 7.
They will then need to either drop the candidate and have no one running in that particular riding, or keep the candidate at the risk of drawing attacks by other parties and negative headlines….