Clark asked to free up party director to testify in Ontario gas plants scandal

TORONTO – British Columbia’s premier is being asked to give some time off to the party’s executive director so she can testify about a political scandal in Ontario.

Ontario’s New Democrats have written to Christy Clark requesting that she give Laura Miller time away from her job as the executive director of the B.C. Liberals to testify before a legislative committee.

The committee is seeking answers about police allegations that Miller’s boyfriend, Peter Faist, got access to computers in the premier’s office and possibly deleted files.

Miller, a deputy chief of staff to former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, was named in unsealed court documents that are part of an investigation into deleted emails about the cancellation of two gas plants, which could cost up to $1.1 billion.

After leaving McGuinty’s office in February 2013, Miller served on the B.C. Liberal campaign team, as did other former McGuinty staff.

Clark said earlier this week that Miller “is a person of absolutely sterling character” and “the utmost integrity.”