The Liberal Party said Toronto candidate Kevin Vuong is no longer running under the party banner and won't sit with the Liberal caucus if elected.

Vuong, running in Spadina–Fort York, had been asked by the Liberals to "pause" his campaign after reports of a past sexual assault charge, which was dropped, surfaced in the media. The news of the dropped 2019 charge was first reported by the Toronto Star.

At a campaign event Saturday, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said his party had taken immediate action when they became aware of the situation.

"We followed the processes that are in place in the party to ascertain and look into this, and we've come to the conclusion that this individual can no longer be a Liberal candidate in this election. It is a difficult but important thing to do, because it's the right thing to do," he said.

Vuong will remain on the ballot in Spadina–Fort York. Million of Canadians have already voted in advance polls. In addition, 4,014 special ballots attached to the riding, more than 6 per cent of the turnout in 2019, had already been received by Elections Canada as of Sept. 16.

Earlier in the campaign, the Liberals also announced that their candidate in Kitchener Centre, Raj Saini, would no longer be running for the party. Saini had been allowed to run by the party despite a series of allegations of unwanted sexual advances and inappropriate comments over the course of his time as MP, which Saini denies.

After first defending Saini, Trudeau and the party reversed course and said it had received new information that led them to drop him as a candidate. Saini had said he would not run for re-election earlier that day.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/kevin-vuong-liberal-spadina-fort-york-1.6181154