A lawyer whose firm was sacked by the Ontario Conservative party after he publicly questioned sexual-misconduct allegations against ex-leader Patrick Brown is now threatening to sue party officials if they don’t immediately apologize to him. Velshi is in the process of retaining legal counsel.”Brown’s resignation, coming hours after the allegations surfaced Jan. 24, has split the Ontario Tories. Many other party activists, however, stayed loyal to Brown, insisting that he was unjustly forced out of the post. The lawyer said Monday that he dropped the Tories as a client expressly so he could help his friend. Villeneuve’s libel notice says Velshi and the party must retract the source’s statements in writing to the Post “immediately.” If they fail to do so, he says he will start court action.

Source: National Post February 20, 2018 18:11 UTC