Hill media want better access to PM, government officials amid continued public health restrictions

'We want to get back on the Hill when Parliament resumes to be able to scrum ministers in the hallways, we want to be able to have them hold news conferences at the Parliament Press Theatre so we can ask them questions, we want to be able to pull them aside, and we hope that that is going to happen,' says the Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau chief Bob Fife.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured June 22, 2021, entering Rideau Cottage in Ottawa. Recently retired Le Devoir columnist Manon Cornellier says over her 36 years on the Hill she's seen a degradation of media access to the political players, including to the current government. Photograph courtesy of The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick/POOL

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

June 28, 2021

Members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery say they want better access to the prime minister and cabinet ministers, once everyone has had their second vaccinations and even as COVID-19 health measures are likely to remain in place for some time to come. But the Prime Minister’s Office says the pr...

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