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Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she is willing to intervene after a United Nations department rejected an application for media accreditation from a Canadian news company on the grounds that it is an “advocacy media outlet.”

The Rebel, the right-wing news and opinion platform published by political commentator Ezra Levant, received the rejection notice earlier this month from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat after it applied to send three journalists to cover next month’s Conference of the Parties (COP 22) in Morocco.

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A spokesperson for McKenna told the Financial Post that the minister supports freedom of speech, and that she is happy to intervene on behalf of any media outlets accredited by the Parliamentary Press Gallery.

While the Rebel is not an accredited organization with the gallery, its Ottawa correspondent Brian Lilley is a member and the spokesperson confirmed McKenna’s willingness to intervene specifically on behalf of The Rebel. McKenna’s office did not specify when it might reach out to the UN — COP22 takes place November 7 to 18.