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RSS FeedsFinal election debate marked by policy discussions, fewer insults
(The Star Travel)

 
 

11 october 2019 05:56:28

 
Final election debate marked by policy discussions, fewer insults
(The Star Travel)
 


OTTAWA — Federal political leaders tussled over deficits, their strategies for climate action and Indigenous issues in the final election debate, an event marked by deeper policy discussions and fewer chaotic insults than their matchup just days earlier.Still, there were sharp exchanges in Thursday’s French debate over economic vision, immigration and a possible deal to let SNC-Lavalin avoid criminal prosecution — the very issue at the heart of the controversy that cost Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau two cabinet ministers earlier this year. In the debate’s first round, which focused on “energy and the environment,” each leader outlined his or her position on climate change and the environment. Green Party Leader Elizabeth May called for an end to new oil pipelines and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and Maxime Bernier, of the People’s Party of Canada, defended their respective positions against the federal minimum price on carbon emissions. Bernier questioned the widely accepted science that climate change is caused by human activity. He stated the “emergency” preoccupying the other leaders “doesn’t exist.”Trudeau wheeled on Yves-François Blanchet, leader of the Bloc Québécois, a signal of the party’s rising fortunes in the province where the Liberals hope to gain seats.The Liberal leader dismissed Blanchet’s proposal to rejig the carbon price so provinces that emit more than average are taxed and the others receive the revenues, as something the Bloc could never accomplish because it can’t win power in Ottawa.Instead, he said it will take a “real plan” with a Liberal government “filled with Quebecers” to prevent Conservative premiers in Alberta and Ontario, backed by “oil barons,” from derailing Canada’s climate action. The format of Thursday’s featured rapid-fire questions for each leader and three-way intera ...


 
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