22 Replies to “Rex Explains The Election Debates”

  1. Actually there are no debates in Ontario either. Both the english and french debates this week are being held in Gatineau, Quebec at the Museum of Canadian History.

  2. So we have the Quebec Nation, First Nations, and the ROC Nation…

    Then we have the current occupant of the PMO offering us the RUIN-nation.

    I want a constitutional guarantee that I am recognized as the “LAST Nation” of Confederation!!!

    I demand to be included in the Leaders “debate” as the LAST Nation!

    Cheers

    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  3. “Weyburn or Port Dalhousie”

    I actually had to make that choice once.

    Rex describes the present state of confederation perfectly. If you don’t live in Que then you’re second class.

  4. // The Debate Broadcast Group announced on Sunday that the French-language debate will take place on Sept. 8 from 8 to 10 p.m. EDT and the English language debate will follow on Sept. 9 from 9 to 11 p.m. EDT.
    Both debates will be held at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que. //

    It’s a federal election; holding the debates in the official National Capital Region is not too much of a stretch.

    As scandals go, it compares with Biden checking his watch.

    1. ditzy makes a good point. It does rate something like biden checking his watch while those whose deaths he’s responsible for are carried past. It smacks of the total contempt ‘those people’ (tm – Justin Trudeau) have for the citizenry and for the very idea of a ‘confederation’. Add to this the fact that Justin has seen fit to Federalize the actual election debates and thereby control the issues and who gets to ask questions (though Ezra Levant won on that count for a second time). Yeah, the fact that libtard supporters still believe that everything they do is simply the best that best can be just keeps making itself obvious.

  5. I agree totally with Rex. In fact I think there should be 6 debates during the campaign. 1 per week (every Monday of the campaign) & should be in a different region of the country. Holding them on Mondays would provide the leaders with a chance to prep over the weekend, and force them to actually discuss regional issues. Foreign Affairs should be the last debate and should be limited to Canada’s place in the world.

    1. Atlantic Provinces (NL, NS, NB, PEI)
    2. Quebec
    3. Ontario
    4. Western Provinces (MT, SK, AB)
    5. BC & The North
    6 Foreign Affairs (Munk Debate)

    Each region would provide the host(s) to ensure that only regional issues were discussed. To be included the Party’s would need to have sitting MP’s in the region, or delegates in a minimum of 15% of the of the regions total ridings. All debates would start at 7PM local time and be carried nationally. National broadcaster (CBC, CTV, Global) would not be allowed to provide the production for these debates. They would be required to carry the broadcast, but CPAC, or local private production companies should be in charge of the production elements.

    1. You don’t work in government, Kerry D Barton, do you. If you do, then you are proof that wonders will never cease.
      How long did it take you to put together your fantastic idea for national political leaders debates? I’d bet it was a much less time than the tall foreheads of Official Canada took.
      I would only add that John Chittick’s idea a few places below should also be included.

  6. “One last question: could there not be just one leaders’ debate outside central cities like Montreal or Ottawa on issues that touch everyday Canadians?”

    Look. Justin knows very well that his bodyguards cannot guarantee his safety in any community where white men still carry guns and know how to shoot straight. He wouldn’t turn up.

    What makes Rex think Justin could answer any question worth asking him?

    “Why do you hate Canadians who are white, speak English and believe in God?

    “Are you a homosexual? Was your father a homosexual?

    “Do you seriously believe the Chinese have a mandate from Heaven to rule the world? If so, on what grounds? If not, why do you jump when the Chinese say hop?

    “Are you an anti-Semite? If so, why? If not, why did you appoint the granddaughter of a notorious Nazi as your deputy?”

  7. Rather than a “debate” on which party has the most favourable position on pieties of the press, how about a debate on the legitimate role of government, how much of consenting adult behavior the welfare / nanny state should intrude on, what few aspects of human action are beyond the affairs of the state, if any. Should elected governance be allowed to borrow without limit from the taxpayers of future generations to tantalize voters to re-elect such upstanding paragons of fiscal management? Should we consider term limits to prevent such abuse? How about debating the science rather than theocracy of CAGW? So many subjects worthy of debate and yet all we will get is schoolyard platitudes designed by, intended for, and measured by an unfree and biased media.

  8. There hasn’t been a Canadian election debate worth watching for at least 30 years. The questions are lame, not that they even bother to try to answer them, everyone is allowed to gang up on the conservative who is never given the chance to fight back and we are expected to believe it’s a worthwhile exercise in futility. Make it an actual debate again instead of giving them time to spew their talking points and I tune in.

    1. I missed the one with Kim! in which she told one of her opponents that maybe he needed a hearing aid. And we know what happened after that.

  9. Drinking game during the debate .
    Every time you hear the following take a drink.

    Very very
    Let me be absolutely / totally/ perfectly clear
    Community
    Stake holder
    Trying
    Science
    Forward
    Investment
    Incredibly
    Dangerous
    Vaccine
    Better
    Equitable
    Fair/er
    Guarantee
    Promise

    Kidding; don’t do it, everyone would die.

  10. Let’s leave the master debaters to…
    This erection campaign is most exciting for the abuse directed at the encumbent PM, who deserves it all, from the deplorables, cause the opposition aint worth shite at doing the job.
    When the French proletariat show you how it’s done; yellow vests, road blockades, demonstrators and tractors in the streets, well even the pure-laine québécois suk at being superiority, non?

  11. I now what a debate is and what composes a debate. There has not been a political debate in Canada for at least 50 years.

  12. Ever notice that whenever any Canadian politician says something is “intolerable,” they immediately go right back to tolerating it? Oh, and depending on how far to the left they lean, that toleration often even morphs into proselytizing for and promoting the “intolerable”. For example, Trudeau appearing at the Holocaust remembrance at Auschwitz, declaring anti-Semitism “intolerable,” but then welcoming that anti-Semitic Green Party woman to the Liberal Party (where she’ll fit right in with the other bigots and anti-Israel zealots). He also often called the boil water regimes on First Nations intolerable, even as he did nothing to ameliorate those conditions for 5 years.

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