Canada's Parliamentary Press Gallery has issued a stern rebuke to the Canada China Business Council, saying it is “completely displeased” with the way the CCBC handled media access to a luncheon for China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on June 23.
Parliamentary Press Gallery president Helene Buzzetti said in a letter that the CCBC decided “for no apparent reason” to restrict the number of journalists covering the event, including major media outlets such as La Presse and other newspapers, the TVA Television Network, Le Devoir, Sun Media, Reuters, and Bloomberg.
“Apart from the Société Radio-Canada, not a single francophone media group was in attendance. Does the CCBC, ironically founded by Paul Desmarais, need reminding that Canada is a bilingual country?” wrote Buzzetti to CCBC president Peter Harder.
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