Durham MPP resigns from PC caucus, disputes she misrepresented vaccination status
TORONTO — An Ontario legislator has resigned from the Progressive Conservative caucus following an accusation from celebration management that she had misrepresented her COVID-19 vaccination standing.
The Tories introduced earlier this month that Lindsey Park, who represents Durham, was being stripped of her function as parliamentary assistant to the lawyer normal.
Authorities home chief Paul Calandra had stated Park would stay in caucus after offering a medical exemption.
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He stated he was below the impression in August that Park “was to be vaccinated,” however that she subsequently sought a medical exemption with out correctly speaking it to him.
Park says in a press release immediately resigning from the celebration that she truly hand-delivered a letter about her medical exemption to the premier’s workplace in August.
She says her physician supplied a medical exemption as a result of she had a “extreme allergic response” to a flu vaccine.
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