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The candidate is gone, Odin be praised, but the aroma lingers on.

On Thursday the United Conservative Party disqualified nomination candidate Lance Coulter, who had a cheery chat with Soldiers of Odin at an Edmonton nomination event.

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This is just the latest, and the most serious, of UCP run-ins with candidate hopefuls who appear untroubled by links with racism, white supremacy, homophobia, or anti-Muslim feeling.

The party keeps kicking them out, but they keep coming. This hurts the UCP’s reputation, the party nominating committee complained in a farewell letter to Coulter.

It sure does. But the far more important question is the damage to the province itself if people like the Soldiers of Odin gain the political influence they clearly want.

The other two Edmonton nomination candidates, both women, claimed to be clueless about the strangely T-shirted visitors photographed beside them.