Bouchard-Taylor commission
Wednesday evening, I drove 200km to get to Jonquière, now known as Saguenay, to cover the Bouchard-Taylor commission (not from Quebec? Explanation here).
So for 3 hours, you have a president of commission listening to a bunch of people taking the mic to speak their mind.
What do you do?
First, you go for the obvious. You get the president as he speaks; you take people in the crowd who are not just reading a paper to explain their point.
And after a while, you try to go for the less obvious. You see shadows, and you go really artsy fartsy. You go for the detail. Anything to get something different.
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