Reporter calls out restricted access at Liberal ‘open fundraising’ event

The party says it's providing reporters with 'unprecedented transparency and accountability' at these type of events.

Videographers and photographers shoot behind a roped-off area at the back of the room in which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is speaking at a Laurier Club donor appreciation event at the Canadian War Museum on June 19.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY SHRUTI SHEKAR

June 21, 2017

A Hill journalist is calling into question the Liberal Party's promise to make its fundraising events more open and transparent, after party staff restricted media access at a June 19 Ottawa event for the party's top donors. It was the first such event in Ottawa under the party's new "open fundrais...

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