We usually wait a full election cycle before importing the best — and sometimes the worst — of American political craft into Canadian politics. Television crews stand outside Ontario PC candidate Kinga Surma's campaign office in Etobicoke,Ontario on Thursday. After a very bad week, the Ford team would have been horrified to see the latest smackdown, published on this very page of the Toronto Star, fiercely rebuking the new party leader — by former party leader Patrick Brown! Astonishing it nonetheless is, to have a conservative politician call for state intervention in the private affairs of a political party. Worse, what if the police investigations about to be launched were to reveal that stolen data was used in the campaign period itself?

Source: thestar May 27, 2018 10:41 UTC