Now that the dust has settled from the federal election, Burnaby North - Seymour’s new MP is offering a $1,000 reward for the return of files from the computer equipment stolen from his campaign office around early September.
Terry Beech’s campaign office was hit by thieves (or a singular thief) who apparently knew what they were doing because they took his campaign manager’s expensive personal computer loaded with video editing software and equipment.
“I was definitely extremely frustrated,” said Charlie Croskery, Beech’s campaign manager. “It’s when the realization hits that nothing can be done, it’s really disheartening.”
It’s not the Mac desktop itself that Croskery is agonizing over; it’s the 12 terabytes of data he lost containing video footage from his job making web videos for various clients.
Croskey estimated there were thousands of hours of work stolen. There was also a message from Liberal leader Justin Trudeau to the people of Burnaby North-Seymour that’s now lost.
“We just want the drives,” Beech said. “Now that the election is over, it’s still something we hope we can recover.”
Beech said he will hand over the reward, no questions asked, and he’s asking anyone with leads to email [email protected].
