 Qaadri issued an apology in a Twitter post the following week, saying "I want to offer my sincere apologies for any offence caused by the language in my petition on technology last week".On May 28, 2018, during the 2018 provincial election campaign, Shafiq attended a NDP rally in his riding hosted by leader Andrea Horwath, he was covered in the media for crashing and interrupting the event, he later apologized for his actions being "rash and inexcusable".He was subsequently defeated in the election by the Progressive Conservatve Party leader Doug Ford, coming third, behind Ford and the NDP candidate respectively.