A line-by-line crushing of the NES appeal

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THE 17-PAGE DECISION THAT ROCKED LIBERAL LAND

While you were sleeping — It’s official: the Ontario Liberal Party’s highest-stakes internal showdown (so far this year) has seemingly reached its final act.

Late Sunday night, the OLP’s three-person arbitration committee dropped a sizzling, unanimous 17-page reality check on failed Scarborough Southwest byelection contender NATE ERSKINE-SMITH, the federal MP and would-be leadership candidate who challenged the results of the nomination contest narrowly won by businessman AHSANUL HAFIZ, a heavyweight in the local Bengali community who owns 30 Domino’s Pizzas.

The panel — chaired by lawyer and ex-cabinet minister DAVID ZIMMER, alongside party operators JENNIFER NORMAN and ADAM GOLDBERG — completely threw out NES’s appeal over the fiercely contested nomination last month. The committee heard from Team Nate and Team Hafiz last week in Toronto at a meeting sources tell me went u…