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Ontario PC candidate Harjit JaswalHandout
Tom Blackwell
May 23, 2018
8:06 PM EDT
A second Ontario Progressive Conservative candidate accused of having used stolen customer lists from a private toll highway said Wednesday he never received the 407 data, and would have no need for it anyway.
Harjit Jaswal also denied working with a controversial political organizer, prompting that man to produce a written agreement contradicting him.
In an exclusive interview set up by party officials, Jaswal said he recruited members to support his bid for the PC nomination in Brampton Centre by old-fashioned door-knocking and networking, not employing an outside database.
He also denied playing any part in a smear campaign against one of his rivals for the nomination using a leaked police arrest report.
Jaswal said organizer Snover Dhillon not only didn’t work on his campaign, but returned $10,000 the candidate paid him for unrelated consulting on his real-estate business.
The whole controversy has been manufactured by the media, he charged.
“I spent the day yesterday over here too,” said Jaswal at a meeting in the office of Conservative party lawyer Arthur Hamilton. “ I am getting calls from all the media. It is distracting me from my goal. It is hurting me and my party.”
The campaign for the June 7 election has been repeatedly sidetracked by the 407 controversy.
As first documented by the National Post, the private toll road says it was the victim of an “internal theft” of information on 60,000 customers, news that came the same day that PC candidate Simmer Sandhu quit as the Tories’ Brampton East candidate. Sandhu worked at 407 until February, but says any allegations against him are “baseless.”
York Region police and Elections Ontario are investigating.
A file seen by the Post that appears to contain the pilfered customer lists says it was “last saved” by D-Media, a Dhillon company.
The Liberal party has quoted the organizer as saying that Sandhu, another client, passed on the stolen data to Jaswal. That never happened, the candidate stressed Wednesday.
But part of his story was contradicted by Dhillon, who said he was hired to run Jaswal’s campaign – and produced a contract as evidence of the arrangement.
The “consulting agreement” between Jaswal and the Dhillon Group – which Dhillon scanned and emailed to the Post – is headed “For Brampton Centre Campaign,” and dated November 23, 2016. Its authenticity could not be independently verified by the Post.
In it, Dhillon, also known by the first name Sam, agrees to provide various services including “membership sign up and management of those responsible to sign up memberships shall report back to Sam Dhillon.”
The document mentions a flat fee of $15,000, including a $10,000 deposit.
Dhillon said in an interview Wednesday he kept the deposit, though he did refund some additional money that Jaswal paid him for work not completed.
He said Jaswal “never canceled the contract,” just stopped taking his calls after some negative media reports about the organizer earlier this spring.
Jaswal said later he has never seen or signed such a contract.
Dhillon, who quit the party last month, is a controversial figure in Tory circles, hiring himself out to would-be candidates to help them win PC nominations. Many of those elections over the last year and a half ended in dispute, with charges of membership fraud and ballot stuffing.
Signing up people as party members and supporters – work that might have been made easier by having access to a company’s client database – is crucial to winning nominations.
He did not work for me, he almost worked for me
Dhillon says he did nothing wrong, and never knew the list of names, addresses and phone numbers he received from one candidate originated at the 407.
Regardless, Jaswal said the two of them never collaborated on politics. Though he hired Dhillon as a business consultant, no work was done and the deposit returned.
“He did not work for me, he almost worked for me.”
Jaswal said he ended the deal after learning that Dhillon has not been pardoned for two separate 2011 fraud convictions, and had been fined by regulatory agencies overseeing mortgage and real-estate brokers.
As for the 407 data, he said it would be of little use to him, and noted that companies catering to the telemarketing industry legally sell call lists for not much more than $200.
Jaswal said he has no idea who mailed out packages with copies of a Peel Region police arrest report mentioning another contender for the Brampton Centre nomination. The PCs disqualified that person just before the nomination vote.
Peel police originally investigated the leak, then passed the case on to Toronto police after determining one of its employees had accessed the document. The probe is ongoing.
Jaswal said police investigators “never came to me.”
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https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2018/05/27/final-ontario-election-debate-turns-nasty.html
It was the liveliest — and, at times, the nastiest — Ontario election debate in decades.
The three major party leaders faced off Sunday night in Toronto for the final time in the June 7 election campaign.
Ontario Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne, left to right, Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford and Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath take part in the final debate of the election campaign on Sunday. (Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
And things got personal almost right away.
Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, whose party has slipped behind the surging New Democrats in public-opinion polls after weeks in front, warned NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is not ready to govern.
“I travel around, I’ve talked to hundreds and hundreds of companies — they are terrified of the NDP coming in,” Ford told viewers during the raucous 90-minute televised debate.
“They’ve told me personally, ‘We will pack up and we will go down south in half a second.’ God forbid the NDP ever get in, they will destroy our province,” he said, predicting Horwath “would annihilate the middle class” and “bankrupt this province.”
Following the debate, Ford repeatedly refused to say whether he would move Deco Labels and Tags, the successful business he inherited from his father, stateside if the New Democrats win.
After weathering a barrage of hyperbole from Ford, Horwath reminded him he has yet to share his full plan for governing Ontario.
“People started voting yesterday Mr. Ford. Where is your platform? Where is your respect for the people now when they are already at the polls and you haven’t provided them any information at all?” the New Democrat said.
“You wouldn’t buy a used car without looking under the hood,” she chided Ford, who became PC leader on March 10 after the resignation of Patrick Brown.
Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne, premier since 2013, acknowledged from the outset that she is trailing in the polls.
“Here’s what I want to say about the last five years: Sorry, not sorry. I’m really genuinely sorry that more people don’t like me, but I am not sorry about all the things that we’re doing in Ontario to make life better,” Wynne said.
“I’m not sorry that we’re covering tuition for 235,000 students. I’m not sorry that we’re protecting the environment, and I’m really not sorry that we’re no longer asking single moms to raise a family on $11.40 an hour,” she said.
“I’m not sorry that we’re making an economy that works for everyone, not just a few.”
That was a reference to the Liberals increasing the minimum wage to $14 an hour in January. Under the Grits or the NDP it would rise to $15 next year, a planned hike the Conservatives would cancel to help businesses.
Ford, who broke with political tradition and did not wear a necktie to appear more relaxed, moved to reassure voters that he would not slash and burn public services.
“Not one single person will lose their job,” he said, noting he is convinced the Ontario government “wastes 4 per cent of every dollar” so finding “endless efficiencies” should be painless.
“Who do you trust with your money? The NDP can’t do math and the Liberals are cooking the books.”
The PC leader also warned that the NDP has “radical activists” as candidates.
“They get their inspiration from Adolf Hitler,” said Ford, referring to Scarborough-Agincourt NDP candidate Tasleem Riaz, whose Facebook page once had a post with a meme of the Nazi dictator with the quote, “If you don’t like a rule … change the rule.”
Horwath said any meme to do with Hitler is “absolutely abhorrent and is something that I absolutely reject, completely.”
“But Mr. Ford’s tabloid mudslinging against my candidates only foments divisiveness and hatred, and it has to stop — it’s the wrong thing to do,” she said, reminding Ford there are criminal probes linked to controversial Tory nominations.
“Mr. Ford, of all people, you have police investigations by three different police forces into candidates. Not from things that were dug up 10 years ago on Facebook, but right now, from data that was stolen from (Highway) 407 records. That’s you and your candidates and your party.”
The NDP leader, who repeatedly interrupted Ford despite the efforts of moderators Steve Paikin of TVO and Global News’ Farah Nasser, charged: “You can’t make up stuff, Mr. Ford. You’re not being truthful. You’re being dishonest.”
Confronted by the ghost of former NDP premier Bob Rae, who Ford blamed for the global recession in the early 1990s, Horwath said: “This is not 1990 and I’m certainly not Bob Rae — in fact he’s a Liberal now, but that’s another story.”
Prior to the debate, Green Leader Mike Schreiner, who was not invited to participate because his party does not have seat in the Legislature, blasted the broadcasters for excluding him.
“I am confident this will be the last unfair leaders debate because we are poised to send the first Green MPPs to the Legislature,” said Schreiner, who is running in Guelph.
“Next time around, media executives will have a much harder time justifying our exclusion.”
It was the liveliest — and, at times, the nastiest — Ontario election debate in decades.
The three major party leaders faced off Sunday night in Toronto for the final time in the June 7 election campaign.
Ontario Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne, left to right, Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford and Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath take part in the final debate of the election campaign on Sunday. (Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
And things got personal almost right away.
Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, whose party has slipped behind the surging New Democrats in public-opinion polls after weeks in front, warned NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is not ready to govern.
“I travel around, I’ve talked to hundreds and hundreds of companies — they are terrified of the NDP coming in,” Ford told viewers during the raucous 90-minute televised debate.
“They’ve told me personally, ‘We will pack up and we will go down south in half a second.’ God forbid the NDP ever get in, they will destroy our province,” he said, predicting Horwath “would annihilate the middle class” and “bankrupt this province.”
Following the debate, Ford repeatedly refused to say whether he would move Deco Labels and Tags, the successful business he inherited from his father, stateside if the New Democrats win.
After weathering a barrage of hyperbole from Ford, Horwath reminded him he has yet to share his full plan for governing Ontario.
“People started voting yesterday Mr. Ford. Where is your platform? Where is your respect for the people now when they are already at the polls and you haven’t provided them any information at all?” the New Democrat said.
“You wouldn’t buy a used car without looking under the hood,” she chided Ford, who became PC leader on March 10 after the resignation of Patrick Brown.
Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne, premier since 2013, acknowledged from the outset that she is trailing in the polls.
“Here’s what I want to say about the last five years: Sorry, not sorry. I’m really genuinely sorry that more people don’t like me, but I am not sorry about all the things that we’re doing in Ontario to make life better,” Wynne said.
“I’m not sorry that we’re covering tuition for 235,000 students. I’m not sorry that we’re protecting the environment, and I’m really not sorry that we’re no longer asking single moms to raise a family on $11.40 an hour,” she said.
“I’m not sorry that we’re making an economy that works for everyone, not just a few.”
That was a reference to the Liberals increasing the minimum wage to $14 an hour in January. Under the Grits or the NDP it would rise to $15 next year, a planned hike the Conservatives would cancel to help businesses.
Ford, who broke with political tradition and did not wear a necktie to appear more relaxed, moved to reassure voters that he would not slash and burn public services.
“Not one single person will lose their job,” he said, noting he is convinced the Ontario government “wastes 4 per cent of every dollar” so finding “endless efficiencies” should be painless.
“Who do you trust with your money? The NDP can’t do math and the Liberals are cooking the books.”
The PC leader also warned that the NDP has “radical activists” as candidates.
“They get their inspiration from Adolf Hitler,” said Ford, referring to Scarborough-Agincourt NDP candidate Tasleem Riaz, whose Facebook page once had a post with a meme of the Nazi dictator with the quote, “If you don’t like a rule … change the rule.”
Horwath said any meme to do with Hitler is “absolutely abhorrent and is something that I absolutely reject, completely.”
“But Mr. Ford’s tabloid mudslinging against my candidates only foments divisiveness and hatred, and it has to stop — it’s the wrong thing to do,” she said, reminding Ford there are criminal probes linked to controversial Tory nominations.
“Mr. Ford, of all people, you have police investigations by three different police forces into candidates. Not from things that were dug up 10 years ago on Facebook, but right now, from data that was stolen from (Highway) 407 records. That’s you and your candidates and your party.”
The NDP leader, who repeatedly interrupted Ford despite the efforts of moderators Steve Paikin of TVO and Global News’ Farah Nasser, charged: “You can’t make up stuff, Mr. Ford. You’re not being truthful. You’re being dishonest.”
Confronted by the ghost of former NDP premier Bob Rae, who Ford blamed for the global recession in the early 1990s, Horwath said: “This is not 1990 and I’m certainly not Bob Rae — in fact he’s a Liberal now, but that’s another story.”
Prior to the debate, Green Leader Mike Schreiner, who was not invited to participate because his party does not have seat in the Legislature, blasted the broadcasters for excluding him.
“I am confident this will be the last unfair leaders debate because we are poised to send the first Green MPPs to the Legislature,” said Schreiner, who is running in Guelph.
“Next time around, media executives will have a much harder time justifying our exclusion.”
