October 27, 2022
The year 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of CPAC, the Cable Public Affairs Channel. In truth, it was for years essentially a Parliamentary video service, featuring Question Period, committees and the like.
And Tom used to delight in telling the story in the family. I know this because, as friends are aware, I belong to that family, having married into it. Peter, a long-time friend, was the emcee at my wedding to his sister Lisa, youngest of that remarkable Ottawa cohort of seven news media hands and comms advisers.
That rule may be a regulatory fiat, but it is Peter Van Dusen’s drive that has created a network of record, not unlike C-SPAN in the US, thanks to the vision of its CEO Susan Swain and her colleagues in Washington. And here’s the thing about PrimeTime Politics, to which I can attest as as a former occasional guest. It was never about Peter, he didn’t have “TV head.” It was always about the story, and giving his guests the opportunity to tell it as they understood it. It was all he cared about. And if there was spin, he knew it simply went with the territory, and let the viewers decide for themselves. As Colette Watson put it, he was “the conscience of CPAC, and the heart and soul” of the place.
He said if he wasn’t “afraid to ask out of the blue a stranger to go out on a date,” he later found that it “influenced everything I do.” After that, he explained, no one could tell him what could and couldn’t be done, notably at CPAC.
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