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Watch the 2021 French-language leaders' debate, including questions asked by Canadians directly to the party leaders. This stream provides English translatio...
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- CBC News
Oct 2, 2023 · Federal party leaders traded barbs on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccinations during the French language debate on Wednesday, as well as other topics such as ...
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- Global News
Sep 9, 2021 · Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau speaks during the second French-language leaders debate, in Gatineau, Quebec, September 8, 2021. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick/Pool via Reuters. Article content.
- National Post Staff
- Trudeau Grilled on Election Call
- O'Toole Hit Over Two-Tier Healthcare
- Medical Assistance in Dying
- Firearm Legislation
- Climate Change
Trudeau's three opponents piled on Trudeau for calling the election with COVID-19 cases on the rise. Trudeau's main challenger in Quebec, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, said it was irresponsible to plunge the country into a campaign when "Parliament was working well" to pass COVID-19 aid and other bills. Trudeau hit back saying it wa...
Trudeau and O'Toole sparred over health care funding with the Liberal leader raising O'Toole's past support for more for-profit health care in Canada to help address some of the current system's failings. Trudeau claimed the Conservative leader would bring about "two-tier" health care, which, he said, would only benefit the rich. Trudeau repeatedly...
Another contentious health issue — medical assistance in dying — was another of the TVA-picked topics up for debate. In response to a 2019 Quebec court ruling, the Liberal government passed legislation this year to extend eligibility to people whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. The Conservative platform calls for a rethink of the ...
Trudeau tried to brand O'Toole as a man out of step with Quebec values on guns. Firearms have been a contentious issue in Quebec since the the Polytechnique massacre of 1989 — a non-restricted Ruger Mini-14 was used to murder 14 women at this engineering school in Montreal — and O'Toole's opponents pounced on his platform promise to reverse the Lib...
Quebecers are among the Canadians most likely to tell pollsters that climate change is the issue they care most about. To gain vote share with Quebecers and other climate-minded voters, O'Toole has beefed up the party's green platform. The party's playbook calls for carbon pricing to encourage Canadians to use cleaner energy sources — but he took h...
Sep 9, 2021 · The major federal party leaders faced off for the official French debate on Wednesday, with less than two weeks to go before election night.. Justin Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh, Erin O’Toole, Yves ...
Sep 8, 2021 · Federal leaders make their points during the federal election French-language leaders debate, Wednesday, September 8, 2021 in Gatineau, Que. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Sep 8, 2021 · Conservative leader Erin O'Toole listens as Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and Green leader Annamie Paul discuss a point during the federal election French-language leaders debate, Wednesday ...
