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Meanwhile, a race-relations group has written to the party’s leadership organizing committee to lodge a complaint about a Facebook post where Karahalios boasted about the reaction to his letter, including screenshots of people calling him a racist on Twitter.

The post showed Karahalios smiling as an angry mob of people comes after him with weapons, with black people featured prominently in the centre. “This image is profoundly insulting and deeply racist,” said the letter from the Toronto-based Urban Alliance on Race Relations, emailed on Tuesday to the organizing committee’s co-chairs. The letter called for Karahalios to be disqualified.

Karahalios has since deleted the Facebook post, but his campaign told the National Post it was only deleted because “it was hard to read the tweets of who the people were and what they said when they were attacking Jim.”

This all comes as Karahalios says he is getting close to posting the full $300,000 needed to qualify for the final ballot. His campaign says he already submitted the requirements for stage two of the process, which requires a $25,000 fee and a $100,000 deposit. However, as of Wednesday night the party has not yet approved Karahalios’s status as a stage-two candidate, despite Karahalios saying on Monday that everything was filed.