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Update Late Tuesday: Looks like Mr. McKnight really does exist, and it looks like he does have the skill sets described below....But....There is also the matter of the 'destination', which goes like this..."the contractor.....volunteered briefly on a local Conservative campaign in Edmonton last federal election"....

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All kinds of folks appear to be searching high and low for one Mr. Rick McKnight, who apparently does/did all sorts of things for Mr. Matt Meier and his company RackNine.

Unfortunately, however, when Postmedia reporters McGregor and Maher asked Mr. Meier and Mr. Meier's lawyer about the good Mr. McKnight they ran into both a real and, it would appear, a virtual stonewall:

...Meier, who is said to be helping Elections Canada with their investigation and has repeatedly said he had no knowledge of the "Poutine" robocalls, has declined to comment on McKnight's identity.

In an interview, when asked how a reporter could get in touch with McKnight, he said "you don't," and hung up.

Later, he referred queries to his lawyer, R. Justin Matthews, who offered a cryptic reply.

"How does one define a real person?" said Matthews in an email. "Would a web-design employee that chooses to use a different name online (which some people seem to do these days) be considered a real person?"

Now.

To the best of our knowledge there is, as of yet, no hard evidence of who the good Mr. McKnight actually is in meatspace.

But his Interwebz tracks appear to be leading some interesting places that may not all be virtual.

Beijing York, in the comments here, and at The Galloping Beaver, has done some linked-in type tracking that you may want to check out.

Of course, other possibilities exist, as Holly Stick has suggested on the same comment threads.

Regardless....

The upshot is that, given all the stonewalling, we still do not know Mr. McKnight's true identity, be it real or virtual.

Which is fair enough.

But let's just consider for a moment that Mr. McKnight is, indeed, a real person.

And let's assume for the same moment that Mr. McKnight really is a fabulous web designer and a boffo marketing manager which, apparently, are/were a couple of his duties at RackNine.

In other words, let's consider that Mr. McKnight is the real deal.

So.

If that were to turn out to be the case, why would Mr. Meier tell Mess'rs McGregor and Maher that they couldn't get in touch with him and then hang up abruptly?

Hmmmmm.....

Could it be, perhaps, that Mr. McKnight's Interweb tracks and, more specifically, the destination or destinations to which they lead is the real issue here?

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