Former Conservative staffer Dion Ahwai has been charged with mischief to data related to an investigation of the alleged theft of materials from Erin O’Toole’s Zoom account during the 2020 leadership race, the RCMP said Wednesday.
During the pandemic-era contest that elected O’Toole as federal Conservative party leader, his team accused rival Peter MacKay’s camp of accessing and downloading videos they said contained sensitive strategic information.
MacKay’s campaign denied allegations of wrongdoing at the time and O’Toole’s leadership campaign referred the matter of the alleged data theft to police.
After the allegations emerged, Greg McLean, a Calgary MP who supported O’Toole, fired a summer student employee in connection to the apparent breach….