I'm on His payroll. Inside the media lockup at the Ottawa Congress Centre, everyone pretends we're dealing with state secrets. You have to turn off your cellphone and check them at the door. You must also sign a paper promising not to divulge even the most boring tidbit to an outsider. The penalty includes banishment from all future lockups, which might not be such a bad thing.
Security guards cover each exit.
The data lines are temporarily dead. The guards will escort you to a payphone, but only for a family or medical emergency. If you start talking in code, we cut you off. Alas, he acknowledged, no one had asked to use the phone. Even so, Ottawa's secrecy fetish is not nearly as strict as Ontario's.