The Parliamentary Press Gallery holds annual elections for its board of directors and that day was today. I've served on the board for the last three years but find myself a little too busy with my day job to seek re-election. In each year that I've ran there has been a bona fide election with people campaigning just like the real politicians we cover. But this year, all the positions were filled by acclamation and all by excellent representatives. Here's the group:
- President: Chris Rands (CBC) President
- Past-President: Hélène Buzetti (Le Devoir)
- Vice-President: Malorie Beauchemin (La Presse)
- Treasurer: Marie Vastel (Le Presse Canadienne)
- Secretary: Elizabeth Thompson (iPolitics)
- Director: Daniel Thibault (Radio-Canada)
- Director: Campbell Clark (The Globe and Mail)
- Director: Jim Bronskill (The Canadian Press)
- Director: Jennifer Ditchburn (The Canadian Press)
- Director: Mark Kennedy (Postmedia)
Wow. With only once exception, this list reads like a who's who of Canadian left-wing journalists. Nice little club they got there.