English Language Debate - Oct 7, 2019

NorthReport wrote:

Will democratic reform be brought up tonite as it has not had much of an appearance in the campaign so far?

Apparently these are the topics:

This debate will focus on affordability and economic insecurity, environment and energy, Indigenous issues, leadership in Canada and on the world stage, and lastly, polarization, human rights, and immigration. Each moderator will guide a distinct section of the debate.

The debate format will allow for a question from a Canadian, followed by a question from a moderator, then a question from one leader to another, and finally, leader-to-leader debate. 

McGuire said polling data and campaign issues factored into which topics were chosen. As well, she said 8,900 questions were submitted by Canadians for the leaders.

https://ipolitics.ca/2019/09/30/topics-format-for-upcoming-leaders-debates-finalized/

Well our moderator hosts for the debate tonight prove that just having women in places of power is meaningless if the women are neocon cheerleaders.

I think Singh has been doing great so far. 

Trudeau is just saying the same speaking points over and over. 

best comment do far goes to Jagmeet after listening to Scheer and Trudeau list all their wrong doings.

"Here we are watching Mr Trudeau and Mr Scheer arguing about whose worse for Canada" followed by a chuckle.

ya i like his voice and articulate words too laine.

Singh..."you have more choices than Mr Delay and Mr Deny" lololol 

I find that surprising. Scheer looks so fake when he speaks. Even Bernier looks more natural and luckily for all of us, he is pretty honest about his libetarian views, which I think really goes against the grain for most Canadians.

Trudeau and Scheer 2 privileged boys arguing amongst themselves is too fkn funny.

Trudeau has always been a nervous speaker so given that, he's not as bad as he could have been. By contrast, Bernier is a smooth talker but everything he says is nonesense.

kropotkin1951 wrote:

I think Scheer is doing very well for his base by being calm and controlled but is unlikely to gain any new voters. I think Singh is doing well and might be making an impression on undecided voters. Trudeau is just Trudeau and those who don't see through his facade will think he is doing fine but I think he lacks credibility so I am biased against anything he says. May keeps trying to claim she is the only leader who knows anything about most of the issues.  I don't think she is winning over any new voters tonight.

Excellent analysis of the debate so far. I think Scheer amd Singh are the real winners so far. 

I don't get how you think Scheer is doing well. I think Singh, May and Blanchet are doing a great job of skewering him.

I said he is doing good for his base not anyone else.

Scheer entered into too many squabbles with Trudeau to give any truth to his pretended calm yet paternalistic voice.

laine lowe wrote:

I don't get how you think Scheer is doing well. I think Singh, May and Blanchet are doing a great job of skewering him.

Krop stated upthread that Scheer seems to be holding his base, which has essentially been the Conservative strategy for decades in many provinces and federally. The skewring may impact the perceptions of people who would never vote Conservative. I would love for the NDP to be able to crack that wall and to take votes from the Conservatives. That would cost the Conservatives many seats out West, and when the Conservatives don't have a 70-90 seat head start by default in an election campaign, the dynamic changes completely.