A Durham Region woman is upset her eight-year-old stepdaughter’s photo is being used in a Progressive Conservative Party pamphlet.
The PC literature was delivered in the Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock riding, where Tory Laurie Scott is the incumbent, and a copy ended up at the home of a family friend.
“I don’t want that picture available to the general public,” Jennifer Dugan said Wednesday. “In this day and age you never know whose hands that photo could fall into.”
The family had been at the Food Truck Frenzy in Whitby last month when they were approached by Tim Hudak and Whitby-Oshawa incumbent Christine Elliott.
“We didn’t know who they were at the time but they were swarmed with people and Mr. Hudak spoke to my stepdaughter about the movie Frozen,” Dugan recalled. “And then they were off.”
Dugan said she had no idea her stepdaughter’s photo had been taken and she’s upset no one asked for parental permission to use or distribute it.
“I really believe there should be much more safety for children because I don’t feel like her rights have been protected in this ad,” she said.
Dugan said the family also does not support the PCs and the pamphlet wrongly represents them.
