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David Menzies, a reporter with the right-wing Rebel Media, was put in handcuffs yesterday by police after trying to report on one of Andrew Scheer's campaign events in Whitby, Ont. When asked about the ousting, Scheer noted that he no longer speaks to the Rebel and said the event was a private one for accredited journalists only. Menzies said he was "astonished" by the reaction to him showing up because he believed Scheer was a supporter of press freedom, and he called his detainment "the kind of thing you see in a banana republic dictatorship." Menzies is not the first right-leaning journalist to get the boot from a campaign event - the Liberals apologized to right-leaning reporter Andrew Lawton in late September after he was barred from a public rally where Trudeau was speaking. Menzies joins Gormley to discuss what happened and how he's planning to cover future events.