Failed Conservative leadership candidate Trost is taking the party to court over allegations his campaign leaked the party's membership list. ( Liam Richards / THE CANADIAN PRESS )OTTAWA—Failed Conservative leadership candidate Brad Trost is seeking an Ontario court’s opinion on whether his campaign ought to have been fined for leaking the party’s membership list. Both the fine and the purported inquiry “were a sham designed to justify a decision that had already been reached by (party) officials, namely to blame the Trost campaign for the leak,” Trost alleges. “As we have done throughout this, we’ll continue to invite the Trost campaign to utilize that appeals process. “At best, the available evidence permitted (the leadership organizing committee) to conclude only that the leaked list was the Trost list,” says the court filing.

Source: thestar September 05, 2017 21:11 UTC