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The Ontario Progressive Conservatives have another unhappy would-be candidate on their hands, claiming he was squashed by the party in favour of a candidate leader Patrick Brown preferred.

“I am disappointed to inform you all that the PC Party of Ontario, under the direction of Patrick Brown, has disallowed my candidacy tonight so that they can acclaim the Leader’s chosen candidate, Amanda Simard,” wrote Derek Duval in a Facebook posting late Wednesday night.

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Duval claimed to have sold 1,200 party memberships before a nomination meeting in Glengarry-Prescott-Russell this weekend, a number that in most ridings — assuming he could get all those people out to support him — would mean he had the nomination sewn up. In the Facebook posting, he said the party was worried about a video shot at a hockey tournament last spring.

“I have raised thousands of dollars for our community through these tournaments,” Duval wrote in his Facebook post. “At one such tournament we decided to make a ‘mockumentary’ about the tournament. We used footage from the games, the dressing rooms and the after party. The shenanigans were all in good fun for a tournament held on St-Patrick’s Day weekend.”