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Tom handled them all well and you may be correct.
Ashton says doctors, lawyers, professionals, and entrepreneurs have built this country. Really?
Niki sounds very Prime Ministerial, she's aiming her guns right at Harper. Clearly the most qualified of the candidates for leadership.
I thought Topp had a great opening statement. He talked about unity and Jack's letter. I would even say he was charming.
topp is having a great debate. this 4-way exchange is going to be pretty friendly.
Yes, Niki did well with her opening remarks at the beginning of the 3 member debate
Dewar is acting really goofy today. Nash beat him to the mic in the open debate session and he did a bit of jig behind the podium. The tension seems kind of thick for the last debate.
Yaffe trying to create divisions.
ashton sounds bafflingly strident, just unmeasured.
dewar is hard to follow, nash lost an opportunity to speak, third time cullen has said "elephant in the room", topp is coming out well.
yeah. Topp is taking up a lot of space in the debate. It's a good job.
Yaffe is asking for some contrasts on immigration, but I think the whole NDP is 99.999% consistent on this.
Dewar is having a hard time distinguishing himself today. This is NOT usually his problem. Cullen is saying/doing his own thing. It's almost like he's talking to himself because few candidates seem willing to take on his ideas, this time on challenging the professional associations to recognise more foreign credentials. Cullen raised this as well at a previous debate. Once again, few takers.
French question now...
I agree.
Topp just gave Ashton a nice compliment for her excellent French response.
Oops - maybe it was to Yaffe???
Peggy is having a good day as well.
Screw this translation crap - I want a bilingual channel.
Oh Dewar...your French
The translator is having a really hard time with Dewar's "French".
Watch it on "floor", NR!
Or the NDP website.
just watch it on the ndp site, no translations.
topp is really doing well in this debate. good answer by nash, very good answer by mulcair. cullen and dewar answer poorly, singh too. "new politics" ashton literally recites party policy.
Cullen makes an odd comment about the moderator's French being better than that of some candidates (and that being disappointing?). Yaffe made a flattered noise. Moment of zen of the debate
Did people see the lineups - I wonder what time people had to line up this morning to get in to the studio?
Dewar asks Peggy Nash about "pooled resources" with other parties. Nash clarifies that: pooling resources on proportional representation.
Dewar tries to ask again, but her answer was already really clear. She adds that if the other parties want to support our agenda, why wouldn't we work with them?
Nash is strong today, good response to Dewar clarifying that her "pooling resources" statement refers to working with Liberals and Greens interested in PR rather than Cullen-style cooperation.
Brian lacks charasma big time.
Peggy is not wasting time on others like Paul has done - she is going after the front-runner.
Dewar: I haven't seen the plan from you. Nash: Stay tuned!
LOL. This is what Dewar said when Nash pressed him about his plan for a non-male unilingual Ontarian deputy leader.
I'm giivng this debate to Topp, then Nash, and third Mulcair. I still think Mulcair will win the leadership. Topp is more user-friendly this time around. Big loser today is Singh followed by Dewar.
dewar flailing attacking nash, does her a very good turn. nash hands an unintentional softball to mulcair that's unlikely to change any minds.
Nash accepts Mulcair's response on "renewing" the party on the surface. But she points out that Mulcair keeps talking about modernizing language, and nothing else. She says modernizing language doesn't build movements, people do.
So Mulcair begins talking about organization. Having those organizations in place constantly, not just a few weeks before the election.
I smell a softball question from Topp to Nash on natural resources.