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Instead, Horwarth is defending Riaz, said she’s “looking into the issue” but offered no evidence to support error or tampering, tried to reflect criticism back at the latest Tory membership brouhaha and suggested Liberals and Tory claims that her team is a pack of risky, “radical” MPPs will only make people more cynical about politics.

That last one’s a fairly low bar, at least for this campaign, which has given voters plenty of reason for cynicism.

But none of that addresses another post Riaz made in 2015 suggesting Canadian forces in Afghanistan were “slaughtering … innocent Men, Women and Children” and that voting for federal Conservatives or Liberals would result in “our ballots turned in to bullets against our Muslim brothers and sisters in Afghanistan and Labia. (sic)”

Horwath sidestepped that alarming post and suggested “there are many people… who are anti-war activists, for example, who are concerned about international issues and that’s not only New Democrats, that’s people all around the world.”

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Not sure most Ontarians, most voters would agree our soldiers are in the business of “slaughtering” innocents.

But what of the claim by the Liberals and Tories that Horwath’s team of candidates are “among the least prepared that this province has ever seen,” at least according to a Liberal release issued Saturday.

Well, meet the team.

Laura Kaminker is the NDP candidate for Mississauga Centre.

Kaminker is a self-described “Marxist” who in a 2014 blog post said she refuses to wear the “fake poppy” and describes Remembrance Day as “war glorification.”