If We Want to Ask Stephen Harper Questions, We Have to Give His Party $78,000
"Go write a story about it."
That's the advice I was given by Conservative communications apparatchik Kory Teneycke when I complained about their arbitrary limit on who gets to ask questions of Stephen Harper.
"It's not arbitrary," he told me.
Judge for yourself.
At every event with the Conservative Party leader on the campaign trail, journalists get five questions—or, at least, they're supposed to get five questions.
That's a notable improvement from before the campaign, back when he was running the country full-time, when there was a slim chance of ever getting to ask questions of Harper.
But even so, there's a catch.
Four of the five questions go to tour media—those journalists who are on the official Conservative campaign bus—and one goes to the local media.
To get on that bus, you'll need to shell out $3,000 a day. Or, alternatively, you can get discounted long-term rates of $12,500 a week, or $78,000 for the entire two-and-a-half-month campaign.
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