Bob Mackin
A spokesperson for Liberal Jonathan Wilkinson is denying his campaign imported 14 full-time staffers from Ottawa to stave-off a Conservative challenge.
(Stephen Curran)
North Vancouver-Capilano Conservative Stephen Curran sent supporters a message April 15 that claimed Wilkinson’s campaign got staffed-up in order to save Mark Carney’s only Western Canadian cabinet minister from defeat.
Kieran Steede, director of operations in Wilkinson’s Energy and Natural Resources ministry office, said Wilkinson was unavailable for an interview.
Steede admitted the campaign team includes six full-time paid members, four of whom are on unpaid leave from Wilkinson’s ministerial office and one on unpaid leave from Wilkinson’s constituency office, “as is routine practice for most federal elected officials.”
Steede refused to name the others, citing privacy. theBreaker.news independently confirmed one of them is Charlotte Power, Wilkinson’s issues management advisor.
The government directory shows 21 people employed in Wilkinson’s ministerial office.
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