Alberta UCP staff attended meeting about voter database before app was shut down

Alberta's United Conservative Party caucus says staff attended a meeting to discuss how to access a website that's now the focus of investigations into a massive breach of personal data.

The caucus says in a statement that staff regularly attend meetings of political interest and, in this case, organizers told them the database was obtained legally. The database contained the names and addresses of three million Alberta voters and was run by the Centurion Project, a group committed to getting Alberta to leave Canada.

Elections Alberta says Centurion was not legally entitled to have the database and went to court last week to shut it down. The agency and the RCMP are investigating. The caucus statement came shortly after the Opposition NDP said it has video evidence of the April 16 meeting with UCP attendance, and that authorities should have been alerted.