The best way to get to know the reviled creature known as a politician is to watch their show-off antics at a press gallery dinner.
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) gleefully describe the weekend’s press gallery dinner thus:
“It was a night of laughs, some trash talk, and even a mic drop. Federal party leaders had a chance to break bread with the journalists who cover them every day during this year's Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner. (CBC., June 4, 2016)