The Conservative Party of Canada (PCC) had still not granted its pardon to the CTV News channel Friday morning, despite the dismissal of two employees found responsible for broadcasting an “unacceptable” montage truncating comments by Pierre Poilievre
“It was not an accident or a misunderstanding. This is another example of a shameful anti-conservative bias in the media,” accused Ontario Conservative MP Michael Barrett in the House.
Thursday evening, the CTV News network published a new apology on the social network and that these people are no longer employed by the network. “A report broadcast on CTV national news on Sunday did not meet the highest expected editorial standards,” acknowledges the channel owned by Bell Media.
The report in question included a truncated segment of a press scrum by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, suggesting that he wanted to call an election for something other than his opposition to the “carbon tax.” Outraged, the CCP banned all of its MPs from having contact with CTV News journalists.
At the time these lines were written, Pierre Poilievre’s office had still not clarified Duty if this instruction still held despite the new apologies from the English-speaking channel. For their part, the seven communications managers from CTV News or Bell Media contacted by Duty have been silent since Wednesday.
The insults continue
Quebec elected official Luc Berthold took to the keyboard on social networks Thursday evening to demand an apology from the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pascale St-Onge, who denounced the conservative boycott of CTV in an interview with Duty. “Are you going to apologize for [appuyé] two journalists fired by CTV for making up a story? [Votre] hidden agenda is revealed now! »
In the House on Friday, MP Michael Barrett alleged that the inaccurate segment of Sunday’s CTV News report represented a “lie to secure their large subsidies and protect a disgraced prime minister.” He continued by also criticizing the daily Toronto Stardescribed as a “heavily subsidized Prime Minister’s Office stenographer.” This newspaper published an opinion piece which described the Conservative leader as “detestable” for his spat with the media.
“We have a Conservative leader and his puppets bashing the mainstream media. […] They discredit two major networks [CTV et CBC]all thanks to their disinformation on social networks,” retorted Manitoba Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux.
The vice-speaker of the House of Commons, the conservative Chris d’Entremont, who oversaw the debates, warned him against using the word “puppets”, as insulting as the title “sold” which spices up the debates recently. Shortly after, Alberta Conservative MP Jasraj Singh Hallan had to retract his words for calling on the Liberals to have “balls” (“ balls “) to trigger an election on the subject of the price of carbon.