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 Rick Kalb, CBC Radio PQ Bus: 4/11/03 11:51AM "Pirates". That's what Parti Québécois leader Bernard Landry branded reporters on the bus that carries the newspaper and radio reporters following his campaign Friday morning. Although there have been bitter exchanges between Landry and some of the reporters, the "pirate" jab was in good humour. On Thursday, the tight campaign schedule left no time for supper for either the premier or the reporters, so his staff arranged for meals to be delivered to his bus. Reporters were supposed to stop at a fast food restaurant. Landry travels in a big blue bus with his campaign logo and his enlarged full face photo on the side. The reporters are on a chartered bus. But while it carries no campaign advertising, it is blue, too, and the organizer charged with delivering the meals to Landry and his staff mistook the media bus for the leader's. Just after reporters had opened their freshly made salads and neat little sandwiches, a pair of harried-looking PQ organizers burst into the bus trying to get the boxed lunches back. Too late! They stomped off the bus grumbling "At least you're eating well." This morning, I asked Landry if he went hungry last night. He smiled and answered, "I was the victim of pirates, my boat was without food, and everybody was laughing on the other boat. But we corrected that a couple of kilometres downhill." In the end, it was Landry who ended up stopping at the local St-Hubert fast food chicken outlet for supper. Rick Kalb Friday, April 11 11h45 edt |
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