Canada AM

Mm-hmm.

And I got there and absolutely loved covering politics, loved everything about it, and then got that call saying, "We want you to host Canada AM," which was a game changer on every level because day two of my life on Canada AM, which was such a totally different world from field reporting, to be in a studio, a morning show.

Yeah.

And day two was 9/11.

He has served in several federal cabinet roles, including Minister of Natural Resources and Minister of Indigenous Services.

He has spent a decade asking questions as a host of Canada AM, so he's well-positioned to keep up that tradition of question posing this evening.

Today, he is a vice chair at Global Public Affairs and a senior business advisor at Stewart McKelvey.

Please welcome Seamus O'Regan.

Here, here's the thing, Aaron.

I did 10 years of "Canada AM", right? So three hours every morning, five days a week, 15 hours of television every week, four weeks a month, 12 months of the year, for 10 years.

Yeah.

Thousands of hours.

Uh, I loved...

I got to know them, you know, backs- backstage, I guess, as it were, because they'd always come on the show to promote.

Because we were all CTV, they would come on "Canada AM" all the time to promote the show, and, and people just loved them.

So it was a great gift, it was a great gift.

He had been in the industry forever.

with a little show called Canada AM, you'll all recall.

And he taught me so much about how to be an effective broadcaster and journalist, and to just talk to the audience with warmth and transparency and start to create this relationship.

So that relationship is where it all started.