KINSELLA: Open letter to ‘whistleblower’ behind Patrick Brown accusations

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Pricey Debbie Jodoin:

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You don’t thoughts if I drop you a line, do you?

I imply, this open letter will not be authorized recommendation, so there’s no have to be excessively formal.

It’s merely an open letter written to you, the particular person recognized because the “whistleblower” who prompted the expulsion of Patrick Brown from the Conservative management race.

One criticism from one particular person: that’s all it took, Debbie. Apparently what you needed to say was so highly effective, so incontrovertible, so damning, you alone may drive the expulsion of one of many frontrunners in your get together’s management contest. Even after the ballots have been printed up along with his title on them. Wow.

What did you say that might have such a dramatic consequence? That’s the query everyone seems to be asking, as a result of the Conservative Get together brass are refusing to say something significant.

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Positive, there’s been an unverified declare that you simply have been being paid by somebody to help the Brown marketing campaign.

However since Jesus was a bit of fella, corporations and associations and unions have been lending individuals to political campaigns. Hell, the NDP wouldn’t exist in the event that they didn’t settle for labour from labour. So long as it’s disclosed, and so long as it’s inside a sure restrict, it’s tremendous. Everybody does it.

Now, Debbie, I despatched you quite a lot of questions previous to scripting this opinion column. You didn’t reply to any of them.

Right here they’re:

1. Have you ever acquired employment or compensation, or supply of identical, by the Poilievre marketing campaign or the Conservative Get together?

2. You’ve posted a number of statements on social media applauding Poilievre and his marketing campaign employees. Have been you in touch with them, or their representatives, while you have been ostensibly supporting Patrick Brown?

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3. Now we have acquired statements and ideas that you simply have been positioned — or supplied your self to take action — within the Brown marketing campaign by the Poilievre marketing campaign to break the previous. Is that this true?

4. Have you ever acquired any compensation or consideration from any particular person related to the Poilievre marketing campaign, or supportive of identical?

Anyway. No response.

One podcaster, James Di Fiore, elicited a response from you. He additionally requested you if the Conservative Get together had given you a job. As a result of he, and we, had heard that too.

Right here’s the way you responded: “No remark.”

No remark might be what your lawyer has suggested you to say, Debbie, as a result of that’s what attorneys typically (foolishly) do. However right here’s the factor: Patrick Brown has employed among the finest attorneys on this planet, Marie Henein, to combat his expulsion. “No remark” gained’t work together with her.

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Full disclosure — and full disclosure is one thing I personally advocate you do as effectively, Debbie — I’ve labored with, and have retained, Marie Henein, Scott Hutchinson and Alex Smith, and plenty of different individuals at their tremendous regulation agency. Marie and Scott are among the many greatest attorneys I’ve ever met. Marie, specifically, might be among the finest cross-examiners ever to exist.

That is one thing you might be about to find, Debbie, the onerous manner. By the point Marie is finished with you, you might be very a lot questioning whether or not it’s best to have come ahead as a “whistleblower.” Chances are you’ll be questioning whether or not any of it was price it. Chances are you’ll be wishing you hadn’t been born.

As a result of Marie Henein will not be going to allow you to get away with “no remark.” Nope.

Now, Patrick Brown and Marie Henein should not with out authorized challenges, too. They want to determine tips on how to get you beneath oath and tips on how to drive you to reply their questions. But when they do? Strap in your helmet, Debbie.

That’s the primary goal of this open letter to you, Debbie. To advise you to get the very best rattling lawyer you possibly can probably afford. Accomplish that now. Now.

As a result of, God is aware of, you might be about to have that have you’ll by no means ever neglect — ever.

Yours actually,

And so on.