Wife of former UCP minister Shandro testified an campaign of harassment against her and her company
The discord between Tyler Shandro and the Alberta Medical Association coincided with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Three days after the province declared a state of public health emergency, AMA president Dr. Christine Molnar issued aAndrea Shandro said her husband was working 18-hour days in Edmonton responding to the pandemic, leaving her and their kids, eight and 10, alone in Calgary. She said she didn’t want to trouble him with the harassment because of the threat posed by COVID.
Shandro insisted her husband was neither yelling nor crying. However, she said being “face to face with an internet troll that’s trying to take out my family” brought her to tears.Shandro read into the record a series of messages — unconnected to Zaidi — that she and her company received in response to rumours she was involved with a Telus telemedicine app which some believed was a harbinger of private health care.
“They wanted to discredit Tyler, they wanted to discredit the government, they were willing to do anything they could.”lashed out at members of the publicIn concluding Andrea Shandro’s cross-examination, lead law society counsel Ken McEwan said that while the Shandros were receiving “vile” threats, the Zaidi incident stemmed from the reposting of a political cartoon.Tuesday’s hearing also heard evidence from Marguerite Trussler, Alberta’s ethics commissioner.
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