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They even had a little nickname for it — “Pete’s Project,” it was called.

It was the name assigned by Laura Miller to the hiring of her life partner, Peter Faist, to wipe clean the computer hard drives of senior staff within the office of former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty.

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Miller, the former deputy chief of staff to McGuinty, and her boss, David Livingston, the former chief of staff, are now on trial for the alleged destruction of data relating to the gas plants scandal.

The Miller emails are part of an 180-page volume of documents that were made an exhibit at the trial Thursday and released to the public.

Generally, the emails and other documents detail how the McGuinty government handled the political fallout from the $1-billion cancellation of gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga, Ont., in 2010-11.

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Livingston and Miller are pleading not guilty to three charges each relating to their alleged improper data destruction.