Ever since it was first reported that Australian campaign mastermind Lynton Crosby was working with the Conservative party on its 2015 campaign, his consulting partner Mark Textor has been telling everyone in the Twitterverse that it’s not true. Textor has even created a special hashtag — #NotInCanada — to accompany various shots of him biking, or admiring landscapes … and not advising Stephen Harper.

On September 10, Maclean’s reported that the Australian campaigner advisor known as the “Wizard of Oz” was coming to Canada to help the Conservative party. Just one day later, Textor began tweeting that “we are not in Canada.”

Textor’s assertion also contradicts a Globe and Mail report citing Conservative sources who said that Crobsy touched down on Canadian soil for “a few days” — but had only agreed “to assist from afar in a limited capacity.”

If we are in Canada then spacial awareness has gone to the birds. #gossip — Mark Textor (@AGFchairman) September 11, 2015

On that same day, when the National Observer ran a story titled “Harper hires infamous Aussie spin doctor,” Textor tweeted to the Observer, “you might want to retract.”

That’s not a kangaroo. Apparently it’s a moose. #canadaelectionsNOT. — Mark Textor (@AGFchairman) September 11, 2015

Textor wrote several tweets stating that he was in Lorne, Australia and “not in Canada”. Subsequently, Textor alleged that the original report by Maclean’s wasn’t true.

Maclean’s writer Laura Payton, who authored the original story, asked, “so what’s he doing on the campaign?” Textor replied: “nothing.”

@laura_payton can’t control what others imagine. — Mark Textor (@AGFchairman) September 14, 2015

That’s when Textor launched a campaign of his own.

Nope. Just checked again this is definitely still not Canada #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/DFKt9v49x8 — Mark Textor (@AGFchairman) September 14, 2015

In response to an iPolitics story published Tuesday about the Conservative party’s refusal to comment on Crosby’s involvement in the campaign, Textor tweeted, “it’s pretty simple. Neither Crosby nor Textor are there. Nor staff. We don’t do bit-part politics.”

The Conservative Party has not commented on Crosby’s involvement in the campaign and won’t confirm if Crosby travelled to Canada to assist with the campaign.