Carney off to B.C. after campaigning in Quebec yesterday
I’m Ashley Burke, a senior reporter covering the Liberal campaign.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney is flying to British Columbia this morning after spending Tuesday campaigning in Quebec.
At a campaign stop yesterday at Chez Ben canteen in Granby, Que., Carney put on a hat as he headed into the kitchen, according to La Presse Canadienne reporter Michel Saba.
Carney joked that it was like Donald Trump’s photo-op where he staged working the drive-thru at a McDonald’s, Saba said.
“I said I’m a little bit like Trump, a little bit like Trump at McDonald’s,” Carney said to a member of his team from the other side of the drive-thru window.
What’s called the “pool” media were at this whistle stop with Carney. The pool is a small group of videographers, photographers and a reporter who document campaign stops, often when the space is too tight for everyone to fit in. The campaign says at its peak this week there will be 24 journalists travelling with Carney.
The photo of the day went to Carlos Osorio, who captured Carney posing in front of the canteen’s sign for Reuters.
Carney held one of his bigger rallies later that night in Laval, where for the second night in a row he said the core of his plan is to “build, baby, build” — a play on Trump’s line, “drill, baby, drill.”
