Prime Minister Harper has journalists turfed from P.E.I. hotel

Katie Rook - National Post
August 2, 2007

Prime Minister Stephen Harper yesterday had journalists ousted from a P.E.I. hotel where Conservative MPs were gathered for caucus meetings. Plainclothes RCMP officers approached journalists in the lobby of Charlottetown's Delta Hotel stating: "There's a time and a place for the media," The Canadian Press reported. The officers said they were acting on orders from the PMO, the wire service stated. Mr. Harper's director of communications, Sandra Buckler, downplayed the incident, stating in an e-mail that the Conservatives were following their own past practice.

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