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CTV News Removes Two Staff Members for ‘Manipulating’ Poilievre Video

The broadcast from Sept. 22 made it seem as though Poilievre had tabled a non-confidence motion against the Liberal government over dental care, whereas the Tory leader had never raised the issue during a scrum with reporters on Sept. 18.
Conservatives were not satisfied with the apology and said on Sept. 24 they would not engage further with CTV News or with parent company Bell or its lobbyists until it “explicitly acknowledges the malicious nature of their editing and not merely dismisses this as a mistake or error.”
Two days later, the network said it had conducted an investigation to determine if there had been a breach of its editorial policies and practices.
The network said the investigation found that “two members of the CTV News team are responsible for altering a video clip, manipulating it for a particular story,” calling the violation of its editorial standards “unacceptable.”
“Those individuals are no longer members of the CTV News team,” says the statement.
The Epoch Times reached out to the network to find out if the members have been fired or just reassigned.
The sentence Poilievre was made to say during the CTV broadcast was created using three different sections of video.
Poilievre had instead mentioned a number of issues during the scrum with reporters, such as crime and inflation, and said “that’s why it’s time to put forward a motion for a carbon tax election.”
Poilievre has had a rocky relationship with some media outlets, accusing them of pro-Liberal bias. A key promise he’s made over the last two years as leader is to defund the public broadcaster CBC.
Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge, who is responsible for media programs and subsidies, did not raise issues with CTV but criticized the Tories for refusing to speak with the network.
The Epoch Times reached out to the offices of St-Onge and Poilievre for comment.

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