TORONTO — A second witness at the gas plants trial has testified that it was David Nicholl, Ontario’s chief information technology officer, who asked for the sweeping access given to David Livingston’s executive assistant. Now retired from the public service, Thomas Stenson was testifying at the criminal trial of Livingston and Laura Miller, once the power duo in the office of former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty. Livingston and Miller were respectively McGuinty’s chief of staff and deputy chief of staff. Stenson was manager of the IT support for those in the former premier’s office and Cabinet office, jointly called POCO. He testified, as did the witness before him, POCO tech team lead Rolf Gitt, about a meeting Nicholl called on Jan. 30 that year where he asked for a “global administrator’s access” to all the computers in McGuinty’s office.

Source: National Post October 26, 2017 22:30 UTC