The six Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidates battled it out on Wednesday evening during the first official English debate of the race in Edmonton.
Jean Charest, Roman Baber, Pierre Poilievre, Patrick Brown, Scott Aitchison and Leslyn Lewis participated in the party’s first official leadership debate, which will be followed by one in French in two weeks’ time.
Topics discussed and debated included abortion legislation, the future of energy, the environment, law and order, the cost of living and the North.
This event came less than a week after five out of the six contenders put on a feisty performance during an unofficial debate in Ottawa, where much focus was paid to fighting COVID-19 mandates and the recent convoy protest in the nation’s capital.
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The moderation was terrible. Didn't allow the debate to flourish.
1:21:49 there is a cut?
at 1:21:49 they cut out scott saying Pierrs name and not getting penalized.
EVERYONE GET YOUR BALLOTS IN NOW FOR PIERRE POILLIEVRE!! I'm sending mine off today!
The soundboard is a joke. Don’t include an audience if you don’t want participation.
as long as CASH (physical currency) is an option, I am ok with bitcoin existing.
it worries me that conservatives are becoming so much more pro abortion.
I think this was a very poorly moderated debate with a poor format it seems that there were so many questions given that ended up not being answered and situations where some one took swipes at others knowing they could not defend themselves, its not a debate when the conversation only goes in one direction and it seemed that the debate format and moderator encouraged this.
We all love pierre
Charest is the absolute worst
This was a clown show . Read like a talk show
This was a waste of time. Pierre is right. We don't need another rigged debate to decide to elect Pierre for PM
Charest has no merit.
Brown you were playing hockey while you locked everything down. One rule for the but not for me…
Your candidate loses time for every second that passes? Excuse me? This debate being held is for VOTERS which were sitting in the audience. You sir, are the worst moderator I've ever had the displeasure of watching.
Why was Greasy Patrick Brown there?
Shortages on skilled workers is not why there is a housing shortage it’s the gatekeepers
I don't understand why the audience can not cheer? Why is media trying to control expression?
CHAREST'S – EGO ARROGANCE UNBEARABLE ,,,ANOTHER TRUDEAU
do something about your fn mic….
Weird how conservatives say they won't make mandates but with the last election they did say they would bring in mandates which is why I voted for PPC because they were the only party who said they wouldn't and believed in body autonomy. It scares me when leaders can choose what to do with your body no mater the cause.
These morons have no understanding of how green energy works. Carbon capture and hydrogen power are NOT any part of the answer. We already have carbon capture. It's called trees. They even produce very useful materials to build housing and provide valuable habitat for wild life. Hydrogen has a useful energy conversion rate not too far off from gasoline. Fuel cells require large amounts of precious metals to produce. High pressure hydrogen is insidious and destroys fuel systems.
We need: wind and solar power generation, grid level battery power storage, battery electric vehicles, replacement of diesel powered transport and service vehicles with battery electric. We also need to build out thorium salt reactors to provide base load. Nobody in this debate is even on the right track.
And this business of bringing in MORE immegrants because we need more skilled labour? Give me a break!!!! We have countless young people that cannot get into the trades because legal restrictions prevent skilled masters from taking on apprentices. Let's change those restrictions so that a skilled master is OBLIGATED to take on a reasonable number of apprentices to maintain their master license. Then, maybe, our young people will be able to provide the skilled labour we NEED instead of being forced to work at demeaning, low-paid retail and fast-food jobs.
On the topic of water we should discuss how Nestle buys our water for mice nuts and sells it across the border which brings them millions. While indigenous people can't even get clean water.
While the CEO of Nestlé believes access to clean water is a privilege not a right, Canada allowing this is showing they side with Nestlé 's views.
Oh the irony of the 94 recommendations. The Reformation was sparked by the 95 Thesis, with the 95th being: that the Bible is the central religious authority and that humans may reach salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds. Considering Canada operates under the concept of the supremacy of God and the rule of law, it would be appropriate maybe to recognize the final authority.
The sound guys suck.
What a joke for a formal debate. Attacking candidates when they don't have the ability to engage is ridiculous. Another Canadian epic fail….
Yeeeeeeahh…….we’re gonna need a new moderator….
Look at that slate of white, whiter and whitest middle-age man on there. On wonder they are losing
Anyone have time point for each topic
What a waste of time for everyone. Especially the other candidates showing up knowing they have no chance. Everyone knows who will win. And by a landslide
My comment here in support of various traditional conservative policies and enumerating some dangerous leftism policies was censored within seconds likely by the Google AI that is trained with biased training data that dictates that anti-leftism is hate speech.
Our education system seeds leftism ideas as psychologically normalized and the right answers to many questions. Very young people are ill-equipped to fact check false rhetoric like this and so swallow hook line and sinker disinformation. When I outline this disinfo, my comment is censored.
All countries have to stop feeding globalism their wealth by adapting new currencies not subject to international debt compounded yearly interest charges. To do this, likely the law of nations should be amended. Some backward countries do not even have a proper definition of an obligation to repay money in the course of future events and generations. As such they cannot understand all of the concepts involved. So called advisors come in and advise that the poor country indebt themselves to become the slaves of these globalists.
The conservative party sucks so much.
Two people admiring Nelson Mandela and they call themselves conservatives? They need to be better educated about history because Nelson Mandela was a member of a far left group in South Africa. I'm not saying that the other side as en example either but, come on, what a weak notion of history of these two candidates.
Roman baber is the most civil,I'll like to see him get in
This moderator is a gaddamn joke 😂😂 forgetting candidates on multiple occasions and personally choosing candidates to speak isn't the best way to handle these things.
I'm socially liberal, but more fiscally conservative. I enjoyed Scott Atchison's calm energy and focus on uniting Canadians.
The moderator comes off like a pompous a-hole. Terrible job
excellent moderation and format
Why the F…does CBC…and RC..keep on blocking the comments sections…are we in a democracy or what…
We pay these people with our taxes…and it is always blocked…..grrr
Undoubtedly, He is capable enough to be the Conservative Leader and Prime Minister of this Country, If he LEADS Canada away from these Unelected, Undemocratic, Criminal / World Organizations.. THEY ( These Criminal Organizations ) don't REPRESENT Canadians.. If you want to have these people continue to tell you how to live, GO LIVE IN SOME OTHER COUNTRY.. Having said that, this Leader needs to listen to HIS Voters and Fellow Citizens and take ADVISE from NO OTHER Criminals that live in some other Country.. Canadians are quite capable of "Screwing" Themselves and Their IDEAS, up.. Here's what I have TO SAY about this GUY.. IF and WHEN the first words that come from is mouth, refers to some Connection to some World-wide Criminal Organization telling the Citizens of this Country how to conduct their lives, WE ARE "SCREWED:. As a 80 year old Canadian, I am saddened by Candice Bergen's that She will not be returning to Public Life.. Canadians will MISS Her..
Pierre for PM 👍👍
"whats music are you listening to?" followed by "whats the biggest threat to Canada" followed by "What are you binge watching" lmao
Boo 👎
Conservative party
Conservative party is The Worst party in Canada, they are even worse than the record breaking liberals in suck-manship
I will not support any coward who supports a woman's "right" to murder their child. Whether he is dressed in blue or red is entirely irrelevant.
Pierre 💯