PM Harper prefers American news
Say it ain't so, prime minister.
Even Stephen Harper's own cabinet seems to be having trouble accepting that the man with the famously frosty relationship to the national news media doesn't consume Canadian news.
"I tend to watch American news," Harper said during an October question-and-answer session at a Canadian Chamber of Commerce convention in Toronto.
"I don't like to watch Canadian news and hear what Allan (Gregg) and everybody else is saying about me. My hobby is to watch politics elsewhere."
Gregg, a pollster and CBC pundit, was in the audience.
A spokesman in the Prime Minister's Office said Harper may prefer American news, but he likes hockey "on Canadian networks" and also enjoys family time watching Dragon's Den, a CBC production, and CTV's Corner Gas - a comedy on which he made a cameo appearance in 2006.
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