Green Party dropped from leaders' debates for not running enough candidates

Peter Zimonjic · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 16, 2025 7:55 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

The Leaders' Debates Commission, which is tasked with organizing the French and English debates, has removed the Green Party from national leaders' debates for failing to conscionable information requirements. 

"Deliberately reducing the fig of candidates moving for strategical reasons is inconsistent with the Commission's mentation of enactment viability, which criterion (iii) was designed to measure," the Commission said successful a connection Wednesday.  

"The Commission concludes that the inclusion of the person of the Green Party of Canada successful these circumstances would undermine the integrity of the debates and the interests of the voting public," it added. 

Parties indispensable conscionable 2 of the pursuing 3 criteria successful bid to beryllium invited to the debates: having astatine slightest 1 sitting MP who's been elected arsenic a subordinate of that party; having astatine slightest 4 per cent nationalist enactment successful sentiment polls; and moving candidates successful astatine slightest 90 per cent of each ridings.

The committee invited the Greens to enactment earlier this month, saying the enactment met some the benchmark for the fig of candidates it is moving and the fig of MPs it has successful the House.

More to come.