OTTAWA - A top Tory strategist has left the Harper campaign after a Quebec media mogul outed him for supplying false information.
The Conservatives have confirmed that Patrick Muttart "has no further role" with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's campaign team.
Muttart was a key backroom player in Harper's election victories in 2006 and 2008, and served as his deputy chief of staff before leaving to join an American public affairs firm.
He recently returned to work on the Conservative campaign as a consultant.
Sun Media owner Pierre Karl Peladeau took Muttart to task today for supplying false information to the news organization that inaccurately portrayed Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff as a planner of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Sun Media recently published a report relying on some of the leaked information.
