Sunday, September 5, 2021

THE FRENCH DEBATE INSULTS YOU MISSED

The first leaders debate was last night. It was held entirely in French and only featured the top four party leaders (the Greens and the PPC weren’t invited). Here are the main points everyone seemed to be happy/angry about:

 - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said that if he doesn’t get a majority, Canada might be going to the polls again in 18 months.
 - All of Trudeau’s opponents slagged him for calling an election amidst a pandemic and the Afghanistan crisis. Trudeau responded that the election was needed to “find a way out of the pandemic.”
 - Bloc Québécois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet urged Trudeau to “grow a spine” (“fais-toi pousser une colonne”) during a debate on the environment (he also wanted Ottawa to use all the money that it spent on the Trans Mountain pipeline and give it to Quebec instead).

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