Was the CBC happy to reveal Krista Erickson's collusion with the Liberal Party?

Published: January 23, 2008, 1:06 pm

This is pure supposition, of course, but I've been thinking about the collusion between CBC reporter Krista Erickson and Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez to use a Commons ethics committee hearing as a proxy for a CBC interview studio. The Conservatives and others demanded that the CBC make the details of their investigation public. The CBC has done that, to a point, revealing the name of the reporter who colluded with the Liberals, and detailing her punishment. Krista Erickson has been reassigned to Toronto from Ottawa. Some think the Conservative government put the screws on the CBC. Nonsense. If you think about it, the CBC had every reason to come clean and make it all public. Imagine the conversation between CBC reporter Krista Erickson and some unknown Liberal Party official attached to the inquiry into the dealings between Brian Mulroney and Karlheinz Schreiber: Krista Erickson: Finally you've got Mulroney talking. I've been trying to get him on

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