Longform Substacks offer MPs like Rempel Garner, O’Toole, a chance to exercise ‘thought leadership’

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner praises Substack as the ‘anti-Twitter,’ but a Carleton journalism professor says MPs could use the platform to avoid direct accountability.
Michelle Rempel Garner
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, who is one of several MPs writing on Substack, says the newsletter-focused platform shows there is 'an appetite for longform content written by legislators.'

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says her growing use of Substack to post longform reflections on public policy issues is another step on “a path” away from Twitter—which has become “a cesspool of bot-driven rage-farming”—and “toward restoring substantive...

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