OTTAWA -- A right-wing media organization is turning to the courts after it was denied accreditation to cover this week's two official federal leaders' debates.
OTTAWA -- A right-wing media organization is turning to the courts after it was denied accreditation to cover this week's two official federal leaders' debates.
"The imposition of these standards amounts to an attempt to regulate the media industry and profession," Rebel says. In a letter filed in court, debates commissioner and former governor general David Johnston cites Rebel's fundraising campaigns to raise money to oppose policies including COVID-19 vaccine passports, a federal bill to amend the Broadcasting Act, the federal government's quarantine hotel requirements, and to constitutionally challenge Saskatchewan's lockdown law, among other activities.
In 2021, it updated its media accreditation criteria to explain its rationale behind what it considered "high journalistic standards," the commission said. "The Commission recognizes that media organizations, columnists or commentators may have an editorial point of view or endorse political candidates or political causes. However, a conflict of interest arises when the media organization or journalist becomes an active participant in the story that they are covering."
Rebel, the commission and the federal attorney general have filed thousands of pages of court documents between them.The first to the two debates is in French on Wednesday, and will be broadcast from the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que. It will be followed a day later by the English contest.
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