OTTAWA—The federal Conservative party has cleared Saskatchewan MP Brad Trost’s leadership campaign over a leak of the party’s membership list to the National Firearms Association ahead of the 2017 leadership vote. In a statement Monday, the party says it has overturned an earlier decision that put the blame on Trost’s campaign, citing insufficient evidence. The Conservative party says it has overturned an earlier decision that put the blame on Trost’s campaign in the leak of the party’s membership list to the National Firearms Association ahead of the 2017 leadership vote, citing insufficient evidence. Read More: Brad Trost looks to take Tories to court over alleged leak of party membership list Brad Trost’s campaign may be source of suspected membership list leak: Conservative officials The trouble started after the leadership race, which Scheer won on the last ballot, when several party members complained about getting correspondence from the National Firearms Association. The committee decided there was “insufficient evidence to conclude that the Trost campaign was the source” of the leak, an overturned the June 2017 decision.

Source: thestar February 11, 2019 22:38 UTC