Terdly nerd John Rustad has splaining to do

2,100 new memberships suddenly appeared in Kelowna on the eve of that riding’s upcoming vote in John Rustad’s leadership review. In the wake of his ‘Indo-packing’ AGM, they were peculiar. The names were mostly South Asian and the phone numbers all read “1111111111” or “2222222222.” The email addresses followed the identical format of firstname.lastname@getcloudmail.co. And they all landed at the same time, just after a membership cutoff deadline in late August. When busted, John Rustad’s party said; “The Conservative Party regularly conducts security checks on new memberships”.

The memberships were cancelled. But 150 that fit the same format were also reported in Richmond, and 100 more in Delta—ridings where the leadership review vote has already occurred. B.C. Conservatives have nothing to say about those. BC Conservatives adopted a torturously long leadership review process that runs from June to December and requires individual votes in 93 different ridings.