Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre restricts press conference questions 

At a press conference in Toronto, federal Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre refused to take questions except from publications which had been pre-selected by his communications team.

Poilievre took questions from True North, Rebel News, Y Media SouthAsianDaily, Oxygen Canada News and Radio-Canada. 

“When asked why, his team just said ‘That’s what we’re doing today,’” Global News journalist Nathaniel Dove said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). 

In a video of the press conference, a journalist can be heard asking Poilievre repeatedly why he wouldn’t take questions from other outlets; Poilievre did not acknowledge or answer the question.