NDP leader Jack Layton is calling a report that has rocked his campaign a smear.
Sun TV is saying that 15 years ago, when Layton was a Toronto city councillor, he was at a massage parlour when it was raided, but was not arrested or charged.
The television network attributes the information to notes taken by police officers at the time. Layton told reporters on Vancouver Island, Friday night that he did nothing wrong.
The NDP are currently just a few points behind the Conservatives.
Meanwhile, media reports that police found Layton in a Toronto massage parlour in 1996 became the
focus of a criminal investigation by Ontario Provincial Police on
Saturday.
Provincial police were
asked by the Toronto force to determine if notes taken by officers at
the time of the raid on the establishment were the source of the leak,
OPP Insp. Dave Ross said Saturday.