in World News CTV News caught red-handed manipulating Pierre Poilievre’s interview clips
By Clayton DeMaine, True North Wire
CTV News misled Canadians to believe that the Conservatives were putting forward a non-confidence motion to stop the Trudeau government’s dental care plan.
The legacy media outlet issued a correction Monday after the Conservatives discovered its editors had spliced various clips from a scrum with Pierre Poilievre.
On Sunday, CTV News broadcasted a segment about the non-confidence motion, which featured a doctored clip of Poilievre supposedly saying the Conservatives wanted to trigger an election to stop the government’s dental care plan.
“Close to 650,000 Canadians have already received care. While the continuation of the plan appears safe for now, the events of the last week have raised new questions over the plan’s future,” CTV News anchor Christina Tenaglia said in the Sunday night broadcast prompting the clip.
“That’s why we need to put forward a motion,” the broadcast showed Poilievre saying.
However, Poilievre never said such a thing.
The clip was manipulated by cutting the first words from Poilievre’s statement, saying, “We need a carbon tax so Canadians can vote to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget, and stop the crime with a common-sense Conservative government,” at the scrum and editing it together in the middle of him saying, “That’s why it’s time to put forward a motion for a carbon tax election.”
After a letter from Poilievre’s media relations director, Sebastian Skamski, CTV corrected its error.