He spoke with The Canadian Press because, he said, he's had enough. Wallace said he has had a 30-year career in political backrooms. "I can find things or people and I can massage and fix difficult situations." "I'm a repairman," said Wallace, a former Ontarian now living in Calgary. Wallace said he gets politicians out of tight spots for a living. Recently, he has been reported to be an organizer for Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre's campaign for leadership of the federal party. "He basically said this is just information I'm gathering for my own use."ĭenis was a Progressive Conservative cabinet minister in Alberta from 2010 to 2015 and justice minister for the last three of those years. Wallace said he warned Denis that obtaining phone logs could be illegal. "He wanted me to go into my source contacts using databases to their private cellphone information communications." "He wanted to find out who (Smith's) sources were. "Jonathan called me (and) told me that at his wedding he feels he had been targeted for poor press," Wallace said in an interview. Wallace told The Canadian Press that Denis got his name through Alan Hallman and Gerald Chipeur, longtime conservative operatives. In an email from his lawyer, Denis denied that he or his clients talked to Wallace. Wallace said Denis told him he wanted to trace sources Smith had drawn on for a story about whether the size of Denis's wedding reception broke COVID-19 protocols. A self-described political fixer says a former Alberta justice minister hired him to obtain a reporter's phone logs.ĭavid Wallace says he was hired by Jonathan Denis to get the phone records of Alanna Smith, a former Calgary Herald reporter now of The Canadian Press.
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