Bernier’s national membership chair MP Nuttall was accused of membership fraud in 2010

An Ontario PC party organizer investigated his team for phoney memberships in a 2010 nomination race, but the party cleared him and allowed him to run. Bernier's camp says it's confident there was no wrongdoing.

Alex Nuttall was one of the first MPs to sign on to Maxime Bernier's leadership campaign, and was assigned the role of national membership chair. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia/Dinozone

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BY CHELSEA NASH

March 22, 2017

Amid unproven allegations that Maxime Bernier’s leadership campaign fraudulently signed up members, which Mr. Bernier denies, The Hill Times has learned his membership chair was accused of using similar tactics in 2010.

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