Did Social Media Help to Cook Lee Richardson's Goose?

After Rabble revealed a questionable grant given to Mr. 'all criminals are immigrants' Lee Richardson, the mainstream media has now picked up the story.

He claims not to have known about it. Right. We believe ya' Lee. Just don't move next door to me.

A Tory MP who's chairman of a Calgary firm says he had no idea the company received a $185,000 grant from his government last year.

Lee Richardson told The Canadian Press he was looking into the matter after it was raised by Liberal MP Marlene Jennings. Richardson is chairman and director of Streetlight Intelligence Inc., which develops street-light systems.

Natural Resources Canada gave the publicly traded company the grant last March so it could demonstrate the benefits of one of its energy-efficient products across
Canada.

Understandably, the opposition wants an inquiry, which means the Reformers will be squealing like pigs again, instead of answering questions.

Lee Richardson told The Canadian Press he was looking into the matter after it was raised by Liberal MP Marlene Jennings. Richardson is chairman and director of Streetlight Intelligence Inc., which develops street-light systems.

But poor Mr. Richardson, has also been hit with yet another scandal. Taxpayer funded trips for his girlfriend.

CBC national political reporter Krista Erickson is registered as the designated traveller for Calgary Centre Conservative MP Lee Richardson, which means she is entitled to receive flights paid for by taxpayers. The Canadian Association of journalists and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation both said the designation raises tough questions for Erickson, Richardson and the CBC, since she covers federal politics as part of her job.

Erickson declined to comment Thursday. “If it’s about Lee, I’m not talking,” she said.

So that's how they control the media.

This is quite interesting though, because Erickson was the CBC reporter who was supposedly involved in a mini 'collusion' scandal, when she fed questions to a Liberal MP.

Doug Finley, the Tories' director of political operations, had complained to CBC ombudsman Vince Carlin that there had been "collusion" between a reporter and Montreal Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez, aimed at devising a series of questions about lobbying efforts by former Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, directed toward the current Conservative government of Stephen Harper.

And the plot thickens.