The Ontario Liberals have scheduled an arbitration hearing for May 20 at 6 p.m. to review an appeal filed by Nate Erskine-Smith over the party’s controversial Scarborough Southwest nomination contest, as the campaign of winning candidate Ahsanul Hafiz prepares an extensive defence arguing the result should stand.
The hearing comes after Erskine-Smith, the federal Liberal MP who lost the May 9 nomination by 19 votes, publicly questioned the integrity of the process and alleged significant irregularities during voting.
An analysis of the allegations called "notice of appeal validity" obtained by QP Briefing and dated May 12, pushes back forcefully against those allegations, arguing the appeal “does not establish grounds to overturn the result.”