Dear Debbie Jodoin:
You don’t mind if I drop you a line, do you?
I mean, this open letter is not legal advice, so there’s no need to be excessively formal.
It’s simply an open letter written to you, the person identified as the “whistleblower” who prompted the expulsion of Patrick Brown from the Conservative leadership race.
One complaint from one person: that’s all it took, Debbie. Apparently what you had to say was so powerful, so incontrovertible, so damning, you alone could force the expulsion of one of the frontrunners in your party’s leadership contest. Even after the ballots have been printed up with his name on them. Wow.
What did you say that would have such a dramatic result? That’s the question everyone is asking, because the Conservative Party brass are refusing to say anything meaningful.
Sure, there’s been an unverified claim that you were being paid by someone to assist the Brown campaign.
But since Jesus was a little fella, companies and associations and unions have been lending people to political campaigns. Hell, the NDP wouldn’t exist if they didn’t accept labour from labour. As long as it is disclosed, and as long as it is within a certain limit, it’s fine. Everyone does it.
Now, Debbie, I sent you a number of questions prior to writing this opinion column. You did not respond to any of them.
Here they are:
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