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Volleys raising more questions about expenses were aimed directly at the front-runner in Alberta’s leadership race on Friday, almost a week before Progressive Conservative party members vote to replace Alison Redford as premier.

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation released more than 3,000 pages of former federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice’s expense records from his time as head of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.

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Derek Fildebrandt, the Alberta director of the federation, said he received the package months after being told that Mr. Prentice’s records were destroyed. He challenged the decision, asking for the records of the ministers who preceded and succeeded Mr. Prentice, and requesting the prime minister’s expenses from the same period.

Mr. Fildebrandt was then told that Mr. Prentice’s records had been recovered, and were merely mislabelled.

“We find that to be an extraordinary explanation,” he said. “I’ve filed hundreds of [Freedom of Information requests] over the years with the CTF and I’ve never seen anything like this… we have very serious concerns about the completeness of the records released and the potential for political interference in the process.”