Ensemble Montréal is refusing to say whether it still has confidence in one of its most high-profile candidates after more controversial social media posts surfaced, including one in which he referred to Muslims as “bearded radicals.”

Thierry Daraize, the party’s mayoral candidate in the Sud-Ouest borough, had already faced backlash last week for a separate post made earlier in the year, joking about booking a “2032 vacation to Gaza at an all-inclusive.” He later clarified that the remark was meant as sarcasm about Donald Trump’s proposal to build luxury resorts there, not as an insult to Palestinians.

More of his old social media posts have since come to light, reigniting the controversy. On the social media app Threads, he described Amira Elghawaby, Canada’s special representative on c

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