The NDP is accusing the B.C. Liberals of going to oddly secretive lengths to dig up dirt on his party, right here in Richmond.
Point Grey MLA, David Eby, said he was speaking to youth at a public event on education and housing at the City Centre Community Centre on Saturday when he saw a young woman doing something odd.
“I noticed about half way through that one of the people was recording me using a cellphone she was trying to hide on her lap,” said Eby.
Eby said he checked the event sign-up sheet, and saw the woman had registered under the name Caroline Bleay, who is a researcher in the B.C. Liberal caucus at the Legislature. But she hadn’t indicated she was with the Liberals, said Eby.
“I think the government should be accountable for sending her there to record these youth and to pose as a young person interested in politics when in fact she was trying to dig up dirt for the election,” said Eby.
B.C. Liberal caucus director Primrose Carson said Bleay was just doing her job. “It is entirely appropriate for caucus research staff of all parties to keep track of positions being advocated by members of other caucuses,” Carson said in a statement.
Meanwhile the NDP’s Richmond-Steveston MLA candidate Kelly Greene said a similar video was posted online by the Liberals, from her acclamation ceremony last month. She suspects the source of that video is also a taxpayer-backed caucus staffer; Greene denounced the acts as “deceptful.”
—with files from Graeme Wood
