Andrea Horwath denounced the sign held by Brampton East candidate Gurratan Singh but said he regrets his actions and will stay on.
Horwath defended Singh, the brother of federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, during a pair of campaign stops in Toronto and Brantford, Ont. Gurratan Singh, Horwath said, is a different person now compared to when he held up that sign at a 2006 rally.
Singh issued a statement Tuesday apologizing “unreservedly to police officers, their families and the policing community”, saying he was “deeply ashamed” of his actions.
Horwath’s defence of Singh comes after Tasleem Riaz, the party’s candidate in Scarborough-Agincourt, was roundly criticized last week when the Progressive Conservatives exposed a Facebook post she allegedly made that pictured Adolf Hitler.
