Political scientists says Alberta’s political culture breeds intolerance of the perspectives of political opponents
Emails suggesting a former Alberta justice minister hired a political fixer to pull the phone logs of a reporter to trace her sources show how the province’s politics has deteriorated, observers say.
On Monday, The Canadian Press reported on a long string of emails, receipts and other documents that seemed to show Jonathan Denis, an Alberta cabinet minister from 2010-2015, hired an investigator to discover who had tipped a reporter to a story that his wedding reception may have broken COVID-19 protocols. The Canadian Press has been unable to confirm the authenticity of the emails and other documents using data accompanying them.
“It’s a nasty affair,” said Duane Bratt, a political scientist at Mount Royal University, who said the action – if true – may breach both criminal law and a professional code of conduct. “There’s a very low threshold of tolerance on the part of conservatives for any kind of political criticism. They’ve always treated it as illegitimate.
Until recently, Denis was volunteering for Poilievre’s campaign. In 2004, the two founded a political communications company together called 3D Contact and continue to co-own and manage a real estate investment firm in Calgary called Liberty West Properties.
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