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Supporters of a Progressive Conservative candidate in the last Ontario election helped run a smear campaign against a party rival using leaked police documents, with the politician’s business partner caught on video mailing out the records, a watchdog agency has revealed.

The latest report on the incident from Ontario’s Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) serves up more startling details of the law-enforcement-aided scheme, including the involvement of people around Tory candidate Harjit Jaswal.

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Jaswal — who denies taking part in the campaign to discredit Nick Gahunia — lost the race for Brampton Centre to New Democrat Sara Singh by just 89 votes in the June 2018 election.

He had won the constituency’s Conservative nomination after the party pulled Gahunia from the running at the last minute, citing the police documents.

The report says Jaswal’s then real estate partner, Sukh Toor, admitted to mailing out the packages and knew the officer who obtained the documents. But Toor told investigators he picked up the packages from Jaswal’s campaign office and had no idea what was in them.