On with the press gallery show, this is it! Or, maybe not

PM's snub, GG's decline, and Cabinet minister no-shows all have some rethinking the gallery dinner tradition.

It was one of her first public speeches as Governor General. Michaëlle Jean drew cheers in 2005 when she joked that then prime minister Paul Martin gave her job because she was 'hot.'

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