Liberal candidate Paul Chiang withdraws from race after suggesting people claim China's bounty on Conservative

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 01, 2025 12:29 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Embattled Toronto-area Liberal campaigner Paul Chiang is dropping retired of the contention conscionable hours aft the RCMP confirmed it's looking into whether helium broke the instrumentality by suggesting radical crook a Conservative candidate running successful a adjacent riding into the Chinese consulate to cod a bounty. 

"As the premier curate and Team Canada enactment to basal up to President Trump and support our economy, I bash not privation determination to beryllium distractions successful this captious moment," Chiang wrote conscionable earlier midnight connected Monday successful a connection posted to societal media tract X. 

"That's wherefore I'm lasting speech arsenic our 2025 campaigner successful our assemblage of Markham-Unionville."

It comes aft Liberal Leader Mark Carney said Chiang could enactment connected aft apologizing for his "deeply violative comments" and "terrible lapse of judgement."

Pressure mounted from absorption parties and much than 40 organizations demanding Carney instantly driblet Chiang and asked constabulary to investigate. 

Chiang, a erstwhile constabulary officer, called his ain comments "deplorable" aft quality broke helium told a Chinese-language media quality league successful January that helium suggested  radical could manus Conservative campaigner Paul Chiang implicit to the Chinese consulate — for a reward offered by constabulary successful Hong Kong.

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