The trial for David Popescu, a perennial fringe candidate in Greater Sudbury, will continue Dec. 12.
Final submissions will be made then. The date was set on Wednesday in assignment court. Popescu was present on Wednesday for a very brief appearance.
Popescu is charged with wilfully promoting hatred against an identifiable group — the LGBTQ community — in June 2018 during the provincial election.
Popescu was found guilty in 2008 of promoting hatred. He had been charged with two counts of wilful promotion of hatred in March, after telling a group of high school students that “homosexuals should be executed” during a federal election debate at Sudbury Secondary School in September 2008.
He was running in the election as an independent.
He then repeated the comments on a Toronto radio station.
Ontario Court Justice Guy Mahaffy was reportedly unsatisfied with Popescu's claim that he was simply repeating what was written in the Bible. He was given a suspended sentence and 18 months of probation.
