WEST CARLETON – As a reporter with two decades covering elections in rarely covered West Carleton and Renfrew County, experience says it’s usually not encouraging when you make the national news.

Kanata-Carleton Conservative candidate Justina McCaffrey had just such a day today (Sept. 14).

Conservative leader and Prime Minister candidate Andrew Scheer was campaigning with McCaffrey to give, what some Ottawa pundits are calling a close call, McCaffrey a boost.

The Liberals seemed to have their own plan to give their candidate and current MP Karen McCrimmon a boost.

Peterborough-Kawartha Liberal candidate Maryan Monsef ‘tweeted’ an old video of McCaffrey and Faith Goldy pitching a television show in a promotional video, on her social media page this morning at 11 a.m.

Liberal MP for Ahuntsic-Cartierville Melanie Joly, minutes later, ‘tweeted’ another edited video of McCaffrey answering a question about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The CBC claims McCaffrey “fled questions” as she left the Kanata Conservative rally and posted a video of her leaving the event on their CBC Politics Twitter account.

Later in the evening, McCaffrey released a statement related to the video with Goldy.

“This video is from 2013,” the statement read. “I haven’t seen her in several years.”