Althea Raj

So because of the government's own legislation, you cannot read anything.

news trusted news content on Meta's platforms but you can watch Mark Carney's video last night I have 470,000 views I think he was at yes Peter you're probably right that is more people that watched question period but I think it's a direct chat to Canadians where they're at in a way that unfortunately mainstream media is not and I think for them it's

It's a wonderful strategy to have your message delivered as you would like it for 10 straight minutes and have Canadians listen to it.

What more could you ask for if you're a politician?

I think it is also sending a message to Canadians for whom that means something.

Absolutely.

Well, he's not having press conferences in the National Theatre, but he never promised he would be doing that.

He had a press conference last Tuesday following the by-election wins where he had a lengthy question and answer session.

Usually he scrums on the way to cabinet Tuesday mornings.

occasionally he'll scrum on Wednesdays in or out of caucus or not so much into question period.

But in terms of questions, mostly it's whenever there's a government announcement, especially across the country, which means that outlets that have reporters like the Canadian press or the CBC can feed questions that are perhaps more of a Ottawa press gallery nature, less local, more national.

When he travels, again,

There is a standard where you have, you know, journalists have paid a lot of money to travel with the prime minister that they have access to the prime minister.

But we saw on the trip to India, for example, he waited four days before he had a press conference.

So I'd say the record is a bit mixed.

He...

I wouldn't say that he's not accessible in the way that like Stephen Harper was.

We don't have a list of preferred journalists that get to ask questions.

But it's not as accessible as, let's say, Justin Trudeau was, especially in the early years of the Trudeau government.

It has changed.