Fri Jan 21, 2022 – 4:21 pm ESTFri Jan 21, 2022 – 4:32 pm EST
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) – Canada’s top bank has a running list of media firms it deems as enemies and has barred those outlets from asking questions regarding national financial matters.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Paul Badertscher, the person in charge of communications for Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem, said that certain media outlets, which included Blacklock’s Reporter, were barred from asking any bank employees questions.
“There’s a couple here who I absolutely — I’ll check the list to make sure he’s not listening — absolutely not keen to give questions to,” Badertscher said last Friday during a routine bank media videoconference, not aware there was an open microphone.
Badertscher continued, saying he does not want to “be in a situation where we are allowing Blacklock’s to be asking us.”
“I know who’s who,” added Badertscher.
However, reporters deemed to be from friendly media outlets, such as the CBC and Bloomberg, were allowed to call upon the bank employees as they wished, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
Blacklock’s Reporter had dialed into the videoconference and recorded the meeting. Despite being barred from asking questions, Blacklock’s Reporter is an accredited member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery.
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