A Liberal candidate Paul Chiang told supporters they should kidnap his former Conservative opponent Joe Tay, deliver him to the Chinese consulate for the $1 million HKD reward (Hong Kong authorities have a bounty on Joe Tay) and for some reason Mark Carney decided to keep his Liberal candidate.  Big misstep, I mean they turfed someone on Friday so why keep this guy around, they could replace him and slot someone else in quite easily.

Mark Carney’s response is even worse.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney says Paul Chiang will remain a candidate under his party’s banner, despite calls to drop the Markham-Unionville incumbent for suggesting people turn in a Conservative candidate to the Chinese consulate and collect a bounty.

“I view this as a teachable moment,” Carney said during a campaign stop in Vaughan, Ont., Monday.

Carney is facing external pressure to drop Chiang after he told a Chinese-language media news conference in January that people could cash in if they turned Joe Tay in to the Chinese consulate in Toronto. Tay is running for the Conservatives in the suburban Toronto battleground riding of Don Valley North.

Source: CBC

Bold emphasis is mine but what?  Rumors are that the Liberal party is soft on Chinese influence and this does nothing but reinforce that image.  I certainly hope the Liberals make more of these idiotic mistakes and that it costs them dearly in this election.