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One week after he was effectively booted from Olivia Chow’s mayoral campaign for deriding a rival transit plan as “segregationist,” political strategist Warren Kinsella said that Ms. Chow’s treatment of him “kind of stunk.”

In a Wednesday interview with Sun News, for whom he is a regular contributor, Mr. Kinsella said that in difficult situations “you want to be able to turn around and say ‘there’s my candidate,’ but mine wasn’t there, so that kind of stunk.”

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Last week, Mr. Kinsella posted a Tweet noting that mayoral candidate John Tory’s SmartTrack transit plan will not connect to minority neighbourhoods in the Jane and Finch area. “Is John Tory’s SmartTrack, you know, Segregationist Track?” wrote Mr. Kinsella.

Ms. Chow distanced herself from the comments, noting that Mr. Kinsella was a “volunteer.” Soon after, Mr. Kinsella announced that he was voluntarily stepping back from the campaign.