O'Brien also claimed that the pages were maintained and supported by Australian college students and British teenage boys with links to the anonymous English-language imageboard website 4chan.

[28][29] In 2017 O’Brien slammed the HipHop / Rap Music sector for its sexism and misogyny having widely accused rappers Eminem and Big Sean of “encouraging rape & physical violence against American author Ann Coulter”,[30] and claimed it was “symbolic of the direction America appears to be headed”.

"[32][33] On September 1, 1988, in a five-hour contest in a packed Richmond Hill Lion's Hall on Center Street, Progressive Conservatives chose O'Brien as their candidate in York North, over Martin Peterson and Peter Philips.

[35] In the 1988 Canadian federal election, O'Brien "was declared the winner by 99 votes, was sworn in, and participated in the Canada-U.S. free-trade agreement debate in the short-lived First Session of the Thirty-Fourth Parliament".

O'Brien sought a judicial recount, was declared the winner by 99 votes, was sworn in, and participated in the Canada-U.S. free-trade agreement debate[41] in the short-lived First Session of the Thirty-Fourth Parliament.

Maurizio Bevilacqua appealed the recount and was subsequently declared the sitting Member by 77 votes (see Journals, April 3, 1989, pp. 2–3[42]).

With that precedent O'Brien and his riding association mounted a successful Controverted Election Act Petition to the Ontario Supreme Court.

Two Ontario supreme court judges found that the number of irregularly cast ballots in the 1988 election had exceeded Bevilacqua's 77-vote plurality over O'Brien.