“What the journalists did was hijack the conversation and deterred it from being on topic,”

no.

what happened was that the government held a press conference about an american political issue to try and distract from issues that actually matter in canada, and the press corps called them on it and turned the topic back to things that are actually interesting to canadians.

it's the government, here, that's guilty of creating distractions by pulling out the identity card, on an issue that canadians correctly don't recognize as relevant to them, because the facts are that it isn't. and, there's no use in feigning naivete, either. this was an intentional distraction. and, it's the media that turned the topic back to something canadians want to talk about.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.