LEVANT -- If you need help understanding the problem, imagine if former prime minister Stephen Harper had banned liberal journalists from his government events
Press freedom applies to everyone – even The Rebel It’s become standard practice for the Liberal government to refuse to accredit me or other reporters from my company, Rebel News, at press conferences. Other right-leaning reporters are banned, too. But, at a recent press conference at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, during a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, there I was, smiling at Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland from the front row. I had been smuggled into the room by the former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Okay – that sounds more dramatic than it really was. The former director of the CIA is Mr. Pompeo himself. And he didn’t really smuggle me in. But he did let me walk into the news conference as part of his own delegation, which included U.S. journalists ... and I doubt he told Ms. Freeland about it. That’s just as shocking as if it had really been a CIA operation.