From the local paper:
The Prime Minister’s Office has told Conservative MPs not to talk to two newspaper reporters about MPs’ homes in Ottawa.
The Chronicle Herald and The Ottawa Citizen are collaborating on a story on expense claims, and contacted MPs from the Tories, NDP and Liberals over the past week.
But when word filtered back to the PMO on Friday, Conservative staff sent out an email gag order. It was obtained by CTV News Channel’s Power Play with Tom Clark, a daily politics program.
While the PMO is often suspected of controlling the communications of government MPs, the email gives a rare peek at how it’s done.
The last time the federal government tried to suppress a Herald story they rather entertainingly went on the warpath about it for awhile. That time was a bit nastier than this - Harper tried to legally order the Herald not to quote a cabinet minister, basically - but still, this isn't a newspaper that gets terribly happy about government interference in its reporting.
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