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“We wanted to extend our apologies for the lack of precise guidelines regarding the execution of your tasks and the overall operations of the evening. We understand that this situation made you feel uncomfortable and we do not wish that on any of our employees.”

The female staffer agreed to work a cocktail fundraiser on April 12 at the party’s Montreal convention.

According to a summary of her complaint, the evening started badly. She immediately reported a problem with people saying they were NDP staff who walked into the fundraiser without paying.

At the end of their shift, she and a colleague went to get a drink, and “saw our managers sloppy drunk,” so they “waited around to make sure they got home safe,” she said in her complaint.

“They left without telling us.”

When she went to an official for guidance, he said, “Not my event,” she said.

She ended up closing down the bar and, according to her complaint, she spotted Mr Layton’s former spokesman, Drew Anderson, “hitting on” a girl. She got a friend and “extracted” the woman and “sent her safely home.

“Drew then started hitting on me,” she said in a summary of her complaint. “He dropped my phone, etc. [A friend] extracted me, and we left to get away from Drew.”

Mr. Anderson is the executive director of communications at University of Ottawa. He was director of communications for the leader of the Official Opposition from August 2011 to April 2012, and had worked in other jobs for the NDP since 2005.