The full list of reasons the NDP turned down Graff as a leadership candidate:

"(a)               The applicant’s finding of guilt, some twenty-five years earlier, for the criminal offence of watching and besetting (for which he received a conditional discharge) and what was perceived to be his lack of remorse regarding that event.

(b)               An Ontario Municipal Board decision describing the applicant as “unreasonable, frivolous or vexatious”. 

(c)               The applicant’s “propensity for litigation”.

(d)               An “attack ad” used by the applicant in the 2014 municipal election. 

(e)               The applicant’s failure to disclose two Facebook accounts. 

(f)               An asserted breach of the confidentiality requirement associated with the application process.

(g)               The applicant’s views on immigration as being incompatible with NDP principles. 

(h)               The applicant’s advocating that “the [Ontario] NDP cease to exist”. "