May 05, 2026
Gurpreet Dhillon wants back on Brampton City Council, asking voters to accept a claim the City’s record and the court record both contradict.
The findings he is trying to set aside were not vague or technical. In July 2020, the City’s Integrity Commissioner concluded he engaged in sexual harassment, persistent unwanted advances, and reprisals against the complainant, documenting that she said “no” 74 times and citing audio evidence that corroborated her account.
City Council members at the time, including Ontario’s now Associate Minister of Women’s Social and Economic Opportunity Charmaine Williams, denounced the behaviour of their colleague.
Dhillon’s message is simple: the allegations were “withdrawn,” the report should be removed, and the matter is settled.
The official record says otherwise.
The complaint has not been verified as withdrawn. The complainant cannot be located. The letter Dhillon relies on remains unauthenticated, with a redacted signature and no independent confirmation it came from her.
That is not a technicality, it is the entire issue.
Council will review a new report on May 6, providing correspondence from the independent Integrity Commissioner on the Dhillon matter and correcting the public record. Its conclusion is clear: the so called withdrawal letter cannot be authenticated.
Efforts to locate the complainant were unsuccessful, and when the Integrity Commissioner reached her long time lawyer, the response was clear: no contact in over two years, no knowledge of her current whereabouts, and no confirmation of any withdrawal.
Despite that, Dhillon has continued to state publicly that the complainant withdrew her allegations, including in interviews with Virasat Media Canada and in coverage carried by Global News.
There is no verification of that claim.
Without authentication, nothing changes. The report stands, the findings stand, and the record stands.
Those findings were tested in court, where the Ontario Superior Court of Justice upheld the core conclusions and awarded costs against Dhillon. The report was not set aside and the evidence was not dismissed.
That ruling remains in force.
The gap is stark. Dhillon is publicly asserting the position of a complainant who has not confirmed it, cannot be reached, and whose own lawyer has not heard from her in years.
That gap is not a footnote, it is the story.
Dhillon lost his seat in 2022 following the report and resulting sanctions, and his path back now depends on reframing that outcome.
But the underlying facts have not changed, not at City Hall and not in court.
The withdrawal claim remains unverified, the complainant remains unlocated, and the letter remains unauthenticated.
The City’s record and the court record reflect the same conclusion.
The findings were not withdrawn, they were upheld, and they remain on the record.
While Gurpreet Singh Dhillon returns to doorsteps and media interviews across Brampton, voters should be clear eyed about one fact: the same sexual harassment findings that ended his time in office have not been cleared, withdrawn, or overturned.