The team behind Todd Stone’s B.C. Liberal leadership bid has admitted 1,349 party memberships tied to the campaign had to be cancelled because they were using improper email addresses after concerns raised by auditors within the party. Stone’s campaign co-chair, Peter Fassbender, said Friday that a social media marketing company the campaign had contracted, called AggregateIQ, created domain names and email portals to attach email addresses to new members, who were mainly Chinese Canadians in Richmond and Indo-Canadian residents in Surrey. Stone had been publicly claiming his campaign had no more memberships disqualified than any other campaign. Bill Bennett, a former cabinet minister and co-chair of Andrew Wilkinson’s campaign, said Stone should be disqualified.

Source: Daily Sun February 03, 2018 16:30 UTC