Dear Editor:
Dear Conservatives: If you don鈥檛 want to look like Trump, don鈥檛 act like Trump.
Extreme message control from elected governments. We see it with the U.S. president. If we elect Poilievre will we see it here?
Poilievre started down this path when the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) barred the media from campaign planes and buses. This breaks a decades-old tradition of media access to party leaders as they vie for your vote. Poilievre has shielded himself. Safe from reporters reporting on unscripted moments.
It has been reported that questions after Poilievre鈥檚 speeches are limited to four in total with no follow up. CPC staffers attempt to screen reporters鈥� questions. They request that reporters divulge their questions, with the insinuation that declining will exclude you from the chosen four. Who gets a question is chosen last minute with party staffers holding the microphone, ready to snatch it away if things go off script. The one question allotted to the CBC in the week was taken away when the Conservatives did not agree with who would be asking it.听
On the public wharf in Petty Harbour, N.L., CPC staffers shoved reporters away when they attempted to question the local candidate before Poilievre鈥檚 speech.
Campaign politics is obviously partisan, but there is a difference between partisan and unaccountable. Like it or not the media鈥檚 job is to ask party leaders tough questions that the public would like to know the answers to. Otherwise, welcome to Fox News.
Robert Mitchell,
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