That campaign manager was considered a big catch, since he used to be a New Democrat, worked for the Barrett government, and ran for the NDP in Ontario in 1988 when he was the president of the National Union of Provincial Government Employees.
I haven't seen any reporting yet on John Fryer's side of the story, but folks I saw tweeting about this from Nova Scotia were not exactly surprised.
The bigger issue in that blogpost is their intention to raise more money from personal loans, which if the government's re-introduced legislation today were to pass would put that source of revenue out of reach. Ken is the expert on this, but I doubt the Green Party could survive that change financially.