After being heckled by a Global 亚洲天堂 journalist, Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre penned an email claiming media 鈥渃annot be counted on to communicate鈥� politicians鈥� messaging.
During a press conference on Sept. 13, to address inflation, Poilievre stepped up to the microphone just as Global reporter David Akin started yelling from the crowd and interrupting the politician鈥檚 opening remarks.
Akin has since taken to Twitter to apologize for the behaviour.
Lots of readers/viewers called me about today鈥檚 Parliament Hill presser. Many said I was rude and disrespectful to . I agree. I鈥檓 sorry for that. We all want politicians to answer questions 鈥� but there are better ways of making that point.
鈥� David Akin 馃嚚馃嚘 (@davidakin)
Poilievre wrote in an email to followers that Akin 鈥渨asn鈥檛 interested in hearing what I had to say, and he certainly wasn鈥檛 interested in reporting it in an unbiased way.鈥�
Poilievre followed by stating the Conservatives are not fighting against just the Liberals, but against the media as well.
鈥淚t鈥檚 the media, who are no longer interested in even pretending to be unbiased. They want us to lose.鈥�
The politician closes the email by encouraging supporters to donate to 鈥済o around the biased media.鈥�
鈥淲e can鈥檛 count on the media to communicate our messages to Canadians. We have to go around them and their biased coverage. We need to do it directly with ads, mail, phone calls and knocking on millions of doors. And to do all that we need your help.鈥�
A bright red button sits just above the email signature linking to the Conservative website鈥檚 donation page.
As of this posting Global 亚洲天堂 has not made a public response to Akin鈥檚 outburst at the press conference, nor to his apology.
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