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is campaigning to be the next prime minister of Canada.
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He's a lot taller than I thought.
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I'm Arjun Ram
and since I've never covered an election campaign
like this before, I'm gonna be getting some helpful tips
from
to explain to me the do's and don'ts
of covering an election campaign media scrum.
Thanks for meeting with me today, David.
What should I expect from this whole process today?
You're going to get to ask a question to one of
the people who wants to be the prime minister of Canada.
They're auditioning for an important job,
so you need to ask him an important question.
The way these things work is you get one question
and one follow-up and having
a plan for that and a structure for that
is important for you to get what you want
out of that opportunity.
What can I do in that situation
when I ask a question and maybe Mr Scheer doesn't give me
the answer that I was looking for or a descriptive answer?
Sometimes the question is as important as the answer
because if they dodge it or evade it or don't answer it,
that's very telling. And the audience can see that.
What's the format of the scrum gonna be like?
The way it normally works is all the reporters will get
together and say,
"Okay, who wants to ask about what?"
Mr Scheer will give his speech and make his announcement
and then he will open it up for questions
and then we all line up at a microphone
and ask our questions in turn.
So you get in that line, you will get to ask a question.
Can you explain to me the don'ts of covering
an election media scrum?
What shouldn't I do?
Don't be disrespectful.
You can be assertive and you can be pushy
and you can be strong, but don't be a jerk about it.
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Hi, how are you?
Nice to meet you.
So here's is your representation.
Awesome.
It's official. I'm in.
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David told me there's gonna be
a reporter's huddle before the scrum.
I think I found it.
Looks like that's the huddle, I'm going to see if I can join.
So what goes on in this huddle here?
Well, we're going to just try to figure out
who is gonna ask what question
and what order we're going to do it.
We want to make sure we cover every topic.
[applause]
Well, good morning, everyone.
It is so great to be here today
with Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti
and Richmond Hill Mayor David Barrow.
Time to go ask the question.
Let's do this.
Scheer: Thank you very much. Merci beaucoup.
Happy to take your questions.
[applause]
Cochrane: Get you through this at at every stop,
just about every stop, with candidates
along the campaign, no matter which party
something like this happens.
I mean the reporters line for the scrum and I'm pretty sure
I'm the shortest one here.
I don't even know if I can reach the mike.
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Hi, Mr Scheer, Arjun Ram,
Welcome aboard.
Arjun: Thank you.
We met at the Raptors' parade actually.
Unfortunately it ended in a sour way with the shooting.
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Reporter: In this witness video you hear four gunshots.
Four people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds.
The shooting left many upset.
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I was scared and terrified as so were many kids.
As prime minister, what would you do
in order to strengthen our gun laws?
Our plan for a safer Canada
goes after the gangsters and criminals.
We're going to invest in new resources to help our
Border Service agents get more illegal guns
that are coming into Canada and we're going to
name criminal organizations as gangs so that
prosecutors don't have to keep proving
the same thing over and over again.
Arjun: How can you reassure kids such events won't be repeated?
Scheer: Well, by going after the gangsters
and the illegal firearms - that is the best way
to reduce the likelihood of these types of things
happening in the future.
Thank you.
Scheer: Thank you very much.
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That was pretty cool.
I think it was a pretty good answer.
I think that went pretty well,
but I'm going to go ask David what he thought.
How do you think that went?
I think you got a good answer from him.
It's an answer we've kind of heard before
but he took it...he took you seriously
and he gave you the answer you were looking for,
it's what you wanted right?
Arjun: Politics is something that matters to me.
And of course for
many people voting is something that matters should to them.
We should care because we're the next generation,
we're the next people that have to vote,
we're the next people that have to decide
who's going to run our country.
My name's Daniel Schow,
I'm Mr Scheer's press secretary.
And as you saw today I thought you got a good feel for usually
how the process works for our message events
in the mornings during the campaign.
Now that everybody's finished you'll notice that the media
is packing up and we're going to go to our media bus.
So we've got one bus for Mr Scheer and for his team.
And then we've got... because we have about
12 to 15 media travelling with us at all times
and they need filing room,
we've got a second bus just for them.
You ever get on the wrong bus and realize
"Oh, shoot, this is the wrong one."
Absolutely.
Isn't it kind of weird for
Mr Scheer to have his face on a bus.
That whole picture.
Arjun: Yeah.
We got it one morning er...
It was really, really early in the morning
a we were on a tight, tight deadline -
we had a bunch of other events to do -
so it was like this triumph of team effort
to pull it all together.
It was really, really cool.
Arjun: Wow.
Daniel: All right.
So this is the media tour bus.
We've got Wi-Fi on here as you can see,
we've got desks so that they can type,
pretty much everything you need including snacks.
[ding]
Jackpot.
Let's find out what type of snacks they have
on the Andrew Scheer campaign bus.
So...
A Kit-Kat. [ding]
See what else they... Oooh!
Ooooh!
Oh, I love these - gummies. [ding]
[ding] Ketchup chips.
Strawberry flavoured cookies.
[ding] Tastes like oatmeal.
Lotta good food here. [chuckles]
[chews on something]
Mmmm, a cookie. These are actually good.
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That was pretty cool.
[beep]
I got it. I got it. I got it.
[beep]
That was, honestly, pretty cool.
And now I know the dos and don'ts
of covering an election media day scrum.
For
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