Interviews with Marc-André Cossette

Marc-André Cossette is CPAC's anchor and host of the interview program, Open Question.

He has spent a decade covering Canadian politics and public affairs.

Before joining CPAC in 2025, he was a senior and investigative producer at Global News' parliamentary bureau, where he worked on several of the bureau's most sensitive and complex stories. He was part of the team nominated for a Michener Award for its groundbreaking reporting on systemic sexual misconduct at the highest levels of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Cossette has covered three federal elections, including as a reporter in 2019 and as a broadcast pool producer in 2021 and 2025. He also served as pool producer for several international trips by the Prime Minister of Canada.

Earlier in his career, Cossette held a variety of roles at CBC, including at its parliamentary bureau in Ottawa. As a 2017 Joan Donaldson Scholar, he also worked at CBC Winnipeg and CBC News Network in Toronto. In 2016, while completing his journalism studies at Carleton University, he spent five weeks at CBC's London bureau, helping produce coverage of the Brexit referendum and the Queen's 90^th birthday celebrations.

On Open Question, Cossette sits down with political leaders, policymakers, and thinkers to better understand the issues shaping public life in Canada.