The commission set the criteria for participation in Thursday's English debate and the French debate on Wednesday, which resulted in the exclusion of People's Party Leader Maxime Bernier.īut it gave most of the responsibility for producing the debates to network consortiums. The debates commission, headed by former governor general David Johnston, was meant to rectify all that.
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The TV networks had also been criticized for caring more about putting on a good show than helping to inform voters. The Green party alleged that its leader had been systematically excluded as a result. In that campaign, the traditional English debate organized by a consortium of television networks, was scuppered after then-prime minister Stephen Harper refused to participate.įive other debates were held but reached far fewer viewers.Įven before then, the consortium debates had been criticized for allowing the big parties to threaten non-participation in order to dictate the terms of the debates. Justin Trudeau's Liberal government created the debates commission after winning the 2015 election. Kurl has also been accused of asking biased questions, particularly with regard to what she termed Quebec's "discriminatory" law that bans some public servants from wearing religious symbols or garb at work and a bill intended to strengthen the role of French in the province. The two-hour fractious debate has been roundly condemned for giving leaders too little time to explain their policies or rebut attacks from rivals, and giving too much time to moderator Shachi Kurl and journalist questioners to interrupt. OTTAWA - The Leaders' Debates Commission was created to put an end to machinations by the big political parties to control how, when, what and who leaders would debate during federal election campaigns.īut after Thursday's controversial English-language debate, some critics are calling for an end to the independent commission or at least an overhaul of its mandate.
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