The federal Conservatives have vowed to stop answering to CTV reporters until the network properly acknowledges that they intentionally manipulated a video to misrepresent Pierre Poilievre.

The Conservatives’ Director of Media relations, Sebastian Skamski, made the statement while chastising CTV for chalking up their fraudulent reporting to a “misunderstanding,” after CTV was caught deceptively slicing multiple statements made by Poilievre, and then placing the fake sentence out of context.

“Yesterday’s so called ‘apology’ from @CTVNews doesn’t cut it. This wasn’t a simple ‘misunderstanding’,” Skamski said.

CTV apologizes for “misunderstanding”

CTV issued their apology after Skamski originally noted the doubly deceptive video.

The spliced video of Poilievre was placed immediately after a clip about the NDP-Liberals’ speaking to their national dental care plan, making it look like Poilievre was proposing his non-confidence motion against the Liberal government because of that specific policy.  

In the real and unedited video, Poilievre said he was proposing the non-confidence motion over the Liberals’ carbon tax, which the majority of Canadians don’t want, at least according to recent public-opinion polls. 

Poilievre calls out CTV’s sneaky edit

Speaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Conservative leader spoke to CTV’s sneaky edit, calling it an “extremely dishonest and fraudulent report.”

He further said CTV’s CEO, Wade Oosterman, has a vendetta against him.

“The reason why he and his other cronies are going after me is because he knows that I am standing up for the people against the crony capitalists and insiders like him,” Poilievre said. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau later called Poilievre’s statement anti-democratic, suggesting he was undermining the media, and by that, democracy.