Juno News - October 11, 2018


Canadian media shocked it isn't getting exclusives with Stephen Harper？ Seriously？

Hosted by
Andrew Lawton
Mentioned
Stephen Harper Rosie Barton Don Martin
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1 minute

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183.61

Word count

363

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14


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Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is on a book tour promoting his new memoir, Right Here, Right Now. But Canadian reporters are upset that they are not getting the exclusives. Have these reporters forgotten the way they treated Stephen Harper as Prime Minister in the 2015 election?

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00:00:00.000 Oh how soon they forget. It's amazing how bad the memories actually are when it
00:00:04.800 comes to Canada's political class of reporters, but we're seeing evidence of
00:00:09.120 it right now. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is on a book tour
00:00:12.960 promoting his book Right Here Right Now, a book that by all accounts is an
00:00:17.280 absolutely incredible testament to the populist trends that we're seeing
00:00:20.880 around the world. It's not a memoir, it's actually a pretty good piece of
00:00:24.960 political analysis. But Canadian reporters are upset that they're not
00:00:29.520 getting the exclusives. From CTV's Don Martin to CBC's Rosie Barton, a number of
00:00:35.040 Canadian reporters are complaining that Stephen Harper is spending more time
00:00:38.560 doing interviews on Fox and Newsmax and with American outlets than he is with
00:00:43.740 Canadian reporters. Now have these reporters forgotten the way they treated
00:00:48.720 Stephen Harper as Prime Minister in the 2015 election? These were same reporters
00:00:53.260 that called him racist, that campaigned against him, that tried to make sure he
00:00:57.600 could never actually put forward any of the ideas and policies in his own terms
00:01:02.400 because they would torque them and now they're upset that they're not getting an
00:01:06.420 early access to the former Prime Minister when he's putting a book forward that
00:01:10.780 actually has global interest, not just to Canadians. Now this shows a profound
00:01:15.300 arrogance and entitlement from Canadian political media. Now it's not to say we
00:01:20.000 should be surprised by this, but I do think it's appropriate to take a step back and
00:01:23.880 kind of chuckle and maybe even enjoy a little bit. What is that term, schadenfreude?
00:01:28.140 Enjoying the suffering of these people that are now wondering why they're left
00:01:32.880 out when they were the ones that ultimately were very pleased to have
00:01:37.200 contributed to Stephen Harper's electoral defeat. Now I haven't read the book yet.
00:01:40.980 I'd happily interview Stephen Harper as I did a couple of times when he was the
00:01:45.120 Prime Minister and then when he was running for re-election. But my goodness if I
00:01:48.660 was hell-bent on destroying his political career, you better believe I wouldn't
00:01:52.900 expect to get an exclusive. For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lawton.