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Scott Stinson: With Liberal 'spy' controversy, Ford's Ontario PCs kick another ball into their own net

A party staffer is said to have trailed former Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie to her vacation in Jamaica

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The story, as it understood at this point, is this: Shortly after winning the Ontario Liberal leadership in early December 2023, Bonnie Crombie took a brief vacation to a resort in Jamaica with her partner.

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The Ontario Progressive Conservative party also sent someone to the same resort to “spy on” her.

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A report this week in The Trillium, which had first reported that the PCs used party funds at two Jamaican resorts in the same 2023 time period, quoted unnamed sources in a follow-up as saying someone was there to scrutinize Crombie as part of opposition-research work.

Asked about the story at an unrelated news conference in Guelph on Thursday, Premier Doug Ford said the first he heard about any of it was on Wednesday.

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