Alberta's data breach raises many questions about who knew what when

Unfortunately, the Premier is singing the same old tune about waiting for someone else to act.

The Venn diagram of United Conservative Party members and separatists has far too much overlap to believe that no one in the UCP knew what David Parker’s Centurion Project was up to. The odds were simply not in the favour of a political party membership that boasts more than 55 per cent support for separatism to begin with, but after Elections Alberta announced that Mr. Parker had access to the official List of Electors in Alberta, the chance that no one in the UCP knew was near zero.

Probabilities being what they are, that was, in fact, correct.

According to recordings scraped from the Centurion Project’s website, individuals with the same names as titled UCP executives attended the Centurion Project’s meeting on April 17 where Mr. Parker demonstrated that information one would not think was publicly accessible was broadcast to the 80 viewers on Zoom.

That information was former Premier Jason Kenney’s physical address, and possibly his phone number and/or email.

The UCP claimed their staff was in attendance but didn’t see anything suspicious about the Centurion Project having that information.

Because of course the former Premier who was run out of office by the separatists just has his address and contact information floating around in publicly accessible ways. What on earth could he possibly have to hide?

Same with Rachel Notley, the former Premier who had received more credible threats to her safety than any other premier before her?

“It’s just like a phone book,” a number of David Parker apologists claimed online.

No. The List of Electors is not “like a phone book” because Albertans had the option to exclude information they didn’t want published; that is not how the List of Electors works.

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