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VICTORIA — An NDP MLA is accusing the B.C. Liberals of going to oddly secretive lengths to dig up dirt on his party.

David Eby said he was speaking to youth at a public event at the Richmond Community Centre on Saturday when he saw a young woman doing something odd.

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“I noticed about half way through that one of the people was recording me using a cellphone she was trying to hide on her lap,” said Eby. “When they said let’s take a group photograph, I watched her pretend to take a phone call and then scuttle out of the room.”

Eby said he checked the event sign-up sheet, and saw the woman had registered under the name Caroline Bleay. Bleay (twitter.com/cdbleay) is a researcher in the B.C. Liberal caucus at the legislature. But she hadn’t indicated she was with the Liberals, said Eby.

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“I know it’s an election but this is just over the top and I find it’s reprehensible,” said Eby. “I think the government should be accountable for sending her there to record these youth and to pose as a young person interested in politics when in fact she was trying to dig up dirt for the election.”