Former PC leadership candidate Tanya Granic Allen, who campaigned to repeal the Liberal government’s modernized sex-ed curriculum in Ontario schools, is seeking the party’s nomination in the new riding of Mississauga Centre for the June 7 provincial election.

It’s one of three ridings where the party executive, under new leader Doug Ford, has decided to hold new nomination races after questions the way previous candidates were chosen under former leader Patrick Brown were called into question.

“There are only a handful of ridings left so it makes sense for me to pick a riding where I have a connection,” said Granic Allen, a fervent Brown critic who lived in Mississauga Centre until moving to a farm northwest of Toronto last year.

“People expect me to continue on with these issues,” added the mother of four from the lobby group Parents as First Educators, which believes the sex ed curriculum updated three years ago for the social media era goes too far.

The decision to overturn the nomination of bilingual lawyer Angely Pacis has angered the Filipino community eager to see one of their own in the race. Pacis previously ran for the centre-right Coalition Avenir Québec in that’s province’s 2012 election.

PC officials have not made public their reasons for overturning the Pacis nomination, or others in Brampton North and Newmarket-Aurora.

Granic Allen said she expects the nomination race in Mississauga Centre to be held April 21.

Her fellow leadership contestant Christine Elliott, who placed second to Ford, has not yet chosen a riding in which to run, although one source close to her said Newmarket-Aurora is a possibility for the former MPP who previously held the riding of Whitby-Oshawa for nine years until retiring from politics after losing the leadership to Brown in 2015.

“Christine is committed to running and is looking forward to announcing her plans soon,” said campaign volunteer who spoke on background.

Meanwhile, the party, which also set aside a controversial nomination in Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas under a police fraud and forgery investigation for months, has set a date of April 15 for a new nomination meeting there.

The winning candidate of the first meeting, Ben Levitt, asked the party in February for a new meeting to “clear the air” but that request was initially denied.

Levitt’s win was challenged in court by defeated contestant and lawyer Vikram Singh, but the case was later settled.

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