Internal warfare in Conservative leadership heating up

Modern technology makes campaigns easier to organize but also easier to infiltrate.

It's getting dirty: Conservative leadership candidates Peter MacKay and Erin O'Toole. Accusations of espionage surfaced last week when an unnamed student employee of Erin O’Toole was fired for allegedly leaking information to the Peter MacKay camp. The stakes are high, so both sides are baring their knuckles. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

June 29, 2020

OTTAWA—The internal warfare in the Conservative leadership is heating up. Accusations of espionage surfaced last week when an unnamed student employee of Erin O’Toole was fired for allegedly leaking information to the Peter MacKay camp. Modern technology makes campaigns easier to organize but ...

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