The Conservatives removed two candidates on April 1 citing concerns about public comments they previously made. The candidates were from Ontario and Quebec.
Conservative candidate Mark McKenzie in the southwestern Ontario riding of Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore is no longer running for the party over comments he made in a comedy podcast in 2022.
In the podcast, he expressed support for the death penalty, and jokingly suggested former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should receive it, according to an audio first obtained by CTV News.
“I’m also in favour of public hangings. … I think they should bring back the electric chair as well. But again only if you’re like a million percent positive … that guy is a murder. A Paul Bernardo, you know what I mean, Charles Manson, people like that, Jeffrey Dahmer … Epsteins, this is what I’m saying—Justin Trudeau,” he said while laughing, telling the host, “you like how I threw Trudeau in there too, right?”…