The member of Parliament for Hastings-Lennox & Addington is calling on his former leader to return donations he says were raised by him for the local Conservative riding association.

Independent MP Derek Sloan is calling on Conservative leader Erin O’Toole to address the issue of $50,000 in donations from local and national conservative supporters of Sloan that will now be used by Shelby Kramp-Neumann in the upcoming election.

Kramp-Neumann was recently acclaimed the Conservative candidate in Hastings Lennox and Addington after Sloan was removed from the party caucus.

In a release, Sloan claims the Hastings-Lennox & Addington riding association was threatened with being de-chartered unless they accepted dictates from CPC Headquarters in Ottawa regarding certain funding matters internal to the board, and the initiation of a new Candidate-Selection process.  

Further, Sloan states the $50,000 raised by himself for the local CPC riding association was given on the premise that it would aid Mr. Sloan in his re-election.

As such the party should return those donations rather than use them to support Kramp-Neumann.

“To instead keep those donations for the Kramp campaign shows a new low in Canadian politics and proves that Mr. O’Toole’s shameful approach towards MP Sloan was never actually about principles - as he claimed several months ago,” Sloan states.

The release adds that Sloan calls for the immediate return of all related funds to the original donors – which he would call for to occur before the writ is dropped.