LIVEPOST: Breakout da Two-Four + Moose Meat: it's the National Leaders Debate (Canada Election '15).
Canada's 2015 federal election will be the most important and dramatic in a generation. Who wants your vote? And what will they do with it? Watch and engage during the Maclean’s National Leaders Debate, Thursday, August 6 at 8 pm ET. Maclean's political editor Paul Wells will moderate as Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair, Justin Trudeau and Elizabeth May go head to head on the issues affecting Canadians before the nation heads to the polls this October 19.
Thomas Mulcair.
Stephen Harper (incumbent).
Justin Trudeau.
Elizabeth May.
Whitest. Debate. EVER.
Nevertheless:
LIVE STREAM IS HERE
(YouTube)
Brief info for confused Americans and international members:
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BLURB #1:
Tonight at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT the 2015 Canadian election campaign kicks into gear with the first leaders debate.
The debate, hosted by Maclean’s [Canadiann news mag], is the first of several unconventional debates this election season. Normally, debates are handled through a TV consortium, but those dissolved after Stephen Harper refused to attend and Thomas Mulcair said he wouldn’t be there if Harper wouldn’t as well.
So far, Harper has agreed to participate in only four debates, starting with one hosted by Maclean’s magazine next [tonight].
The other three, scheduled throughout the fall, are being hosted by Quebec television network TVA, the Munk Debates and the Globe and Mail-Google Canada.
The Conservatives have said Harper will participate in five debates but has not so far identified the fifth.
Source: National Post (Canada's coservative-leaning paper).
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BLURB #2:
This debate takes place very early in an unusually long election campaign - 11 weeks - but it was scheduled even before the election was called.
Tonight's debate is the first not to be organized by the broadcast consortium, of which CBC is a member, and could be the only English-language debate of the 2015 election campaign to have all four leaders of the major national parties.
We'll have live coverage and discussion here starting at 6:30 p.m. ET and carrying on throughout the night.
Source: The CBC (evil communist national public TV network in Canada).
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