Green leadership results tainted by fundraising disaster, candidate says

OTTAWA — Green leadership candidates are digging into their own fundraising data today after their party acknowledged Tuesday it hadn’t properly forwarded all donations to one candidate.

The Green party says it accidentally kept thousands of dollars in donations that were supposed to go to Glen Murray, leaving him with significantly less money to use for campaigning.

The admission came four days after digital voting began, and four days before the winner is to be announced.

Meryam Haddad, a Montreal immigration lawyer who last week successfully fought a party ruling to expel her from the contest, says this is another in a growing list of mistakes and bad management of the race that  calls into question whether the winner is truly being chosen democratically.