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One of the front runners for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives used a covert email address to avoid public scrutiny.
Ted Morton used his first and middle names for an email address he used for internal communications while he was in government to discuss hot button issues.
The “Frederick Lee” pseudonym was used to discuss controversial new land use legislation. In one of these emails, from November 2008, Morton wrote about Metis settlements in Alberta, stating that their lands are not considered private lands in the conventional sense.
“If the Metis suddenly want to share in some of the potential benefits of private land ownership, do they also want to be subject o all other restrictions and duties that attach to private land ownership in Alberta? I doubt it. They cannot have their cake and eat it took,” wrote Morton in the email.
Morton was not available to comment on the emails.
