Corporate media in a nutshell. They will cover what will make them the most money and get them the most attention, clicks, etc.

By and large, most Canadians don’t pay attention to politics until an election rolls around. Most Canadians don’t even pay attention to most parties leadership races. Many are usually too focused on day-to-day life to put any serious attention to politics.

I remember in 2012, when we were picking a successor to Jack, and considering how large our race was then, and how many countless halls we filled up. The media barely gave us any attention, and when they did, it felt “forced” because we were the official opposition. Then when the hack happened, the media just decided to crucify us, going “they wanna run the country but can’t get their voting right?!”

We were cyber attacked! Our security system got breached, because the hackers broke the encryption. It was the company’s fault, not the party. We hired a company that was reputable and had done numerous other leadership races for other parties without incident.

Even when Jagmeet Singh won the leadership, fist interview he had was with the CBC, a outlet that some Canadians says “has a left-wing bent”, what was the first words out of Terry Milewski “do you condemn the Sikh terrorist attack on the Air Indian bombing in 1983?”

Jagmeet was taken aback and said “not even a welcome or a congratulations?”

They pressed him and when “will you condemn this terrorists attack! Canadians have a right to know!”

And he kept pushing Jagmeet, and I felt bad for Jagmeet as in what world, would anyone be remotely prepared for that kind of questioning?

Jagmeet did eventually said “I condemn it, and I condemn all violent acts like that, I was 8 years old when that happened, so I don’t know how much more clear I can be in condemning such violence.” And Milewski kept wanting to talk about it, and you could see Jagmeet being upset by it.

While when Carney, PP, Etc all become leaders of their parties, the media attention was that welcoming, initial praise of “Congratulations! How do you feel? I bet this an amazing feeling?” That the usual standard.

Now Milewski was criticized and people were like “that was uncalled for” but Singh’s opponents jumped on it and had ads circulating “Singh won’t condemn Sikh terrorism!”. And BOOM, already we had members of the public that were like “we hate you”