Questions are swirling over who knew — and for how long — that the personal information info of millions of Albertans was openly available for all to see on the website of an Alberta separatist group.
Now, Jason Kenney says he’s considering legal action after his address was allegedly shared at a meeting by the separatist group run by the man who boasted about leading the charge to get the former premier ousted from office.
“I understand that my personal information, including my home address, was shared publicly on a screen at a recent Alberta separatist event,” Kenney said in a statement posted to his social media Tuesday afternoon.
“It was also recorded on video, and is now circulating.”
The data came from the Republican Party of Alberta’s legitimate copy of a list of electors, that Elections Alberta said unlawfully ended up in the hands of The Centurion Project — a group committed to getting Alberta to leave Canada.
The names, addresses and electoral districts of millions of Albertans were posted in a searchable online database for an unknown amount of time before a court order forced a separatist group to take it down last week.
The project is led by long-time political organizer David Parker, who has said the goal is to recruit and identify those who support the idea ahead of a potential fall referendum. The group planned to use the database to achieve that goal.
Parker is best known for organizing a grassroots movement called Take Back Alberta. It helped organize United Conservative Party members to cast ballots to take down Kenney in a confidence vote. Take Back Alberta later helped galvanize support to help Danielle Smith win the UCP leadership party race to take Kenney’s place.
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“Over the past few years I have received no shortage of threats from people broadly associated with the separatist/antivax /far right movement in Alberta,” Kenney said in his statement.
“So it is disturbing that my personal information is now broadly available, particularly in those circles.”
Kenney said while he was targeted specifically, the broader data breach may also affect many other Albertans such as domestic violence survivors, journalists, activists, judges, and other public servants for years to come. Kenney said he is lawyering up.
“I will retain legal counsel to seek advice on recourse regarding this outrageous and potentially dangerous violation of my personal privacy.”
UCP staff attended meeting about voter database before website shut down
The Centurion Project meeting in question took place virtually on April 16.
The United Conservative Party caucus confirmed some of its staff attended the meeting, where the aim was to discuss how to access the website that’s now the focus of data breach investigations.
Staff regularly attend meetings of political interest and, in this case, organizers told them the database was obtained legally, the UCP said in a statement.
The caucus statement came shortly after the Opposition NDP said it has video evidence of the April 16 meeting with UCP attendance, and that authorities should have been alerted.
The NDP said the list of attendees and a video recording of the call identify a “Rob Smith” and an “Arundeep Sandhu” were in attendance.
The president of the UCP is named Rob Smith and the UCP caucus director of stakeholder relations is named Arundeep Sandhu.
The NDP is demanding answers.
“It means that the premier’s own staff and her most senior party officials knew about this data breach and did nothing,” Opposition NDP leader Naheed Nenshi said on Tuesday.
The NDP claimed The Centurion Project members demonstrated at the meeting how to use the database to search for personal information of Albertans and allegedly used the former premier as an example.
“Jason Kenney’s personal information was shared on screen with all meeting attendees. This video appears to show the database that was built using the unauthorized electors list that was the subject of an injunction issued by the Court of King’s Bench,” the Opposition claims.
Elections Alberta said it started looking into the issue on Monday, April 27 but a Calgary-based journalist and political commentator says she raised concerns to the authority weeks ago.
With different timelines floating around, Nenshi questions why nothing appears to have been done until last week.
“Why was it not reported by the UCP, or any government official, to the police or Elections Alberta that The Centurion Project seems to have access, unauthorized access, to the electors list?”
The UCP shot back on Tuesday, denying its leader attended the meeting.
“Naheed Nenshi is using a common name to drag our president through the mud,” the UCP said in a statement to Global News. “Rob Smith was never at that meeting, nor has he been at any Centurion meeting.
“It is a flat-out lie.”
Shanna Schulhauser, director of communications for the United Conservative caucus, accused the NDP of not doing enough itself.
“We also remain concerned that members of the NDP, including the Leader of the Opposition, may have suspected the list was illegal but did not bring this information forward to the government for several weeks.
“Perhaps instead of pointing fingers and playing politics the NDP should let these independent bodies to their job and investigate.”
Elections Alberta and the RCMP are investigating.
—with files from The Canadian Press
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