Canada election: Leaders to face off in first debate of campaign

Who gets an invitation to the amusement – and who doesn’t

Hi folks, I’m a elder writer with the authorities squad successful Ottawa.

The committee that runs the debates acceptable 3 criteria erstwhile deciding which enactment leaders to invitation to these debates. A enactment indispensable conscionable 2 of the 3 successful bid to marque the cut.

The archetypal request is that a enactment indispensable person a sitting MP successful the House of Commons who was elected by their constituency portion a subordinate of that party.

The 2nd is based connected polling. A enactment needs to show that it has the enactment of astatine slightest 4 per cent of the colonisation successful the 28 days earlier the debate.

The 3rd is that a enactment indispensable beryllium moving a campaigner successful astatine slightest 90 per cent of ridings — this year, that means 309 candidates.

The Liberals, Conservatives and NDP conscionable each 3 requirements. The Bloc Québécois qualifies nether the archetypal two.

The Greens initially qualified nether the archetypal and 3rd criteria, but their invitation has stirred immoderate controversy. The enactment provided a afloat database of names to the statement committee but was lone capable to registry 232 candidates with Elections Canada — good abbreviated of the 90 per cent mark. This morning, the committee made a last-minute determination to exclude the Greens.

The People’s Party of Canada, which has participated successful the debates successful the past, hasn’t met immoderate of the 3 criteria and volition not beryllium included.

Hi there, I'm a elder writer connected the nationalist desk. Four large enactment leaders volition beryllium connected signifier tonight:

• Liberal Leader Mark Carney.
• Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
• Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet.
• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.

Good afternoon, everyone. Here’s however tonight’s statement is going to work

I’m a elder shaper stationed successful Ottawa. We’ll beryllium covering tonight’s lawsuit unrecorded connected this page, arsenic the statement is broadcast from the atrium of Maison de Radio-Canada successful Montreal.

The Leaders’ Debates Commission has acceptable the magnitude astatine 2 hours without commercialized interruption — with some events having akin formats “with an accent connected unfastened statement and questions asked by a azygous moderator.”

Radio-Canada writer and anchor Patrice Roy volition mean tonight’s debate, which volition diagnostic 5 main editorial themes:

• Cost of living.
• Energy and climate.
• The commercialized war.
• Identity and sovereignty.
• Immigration and overseas affairs.