Breaking down party strategies following the first federal election debate

Opposition leaders Elizabeth May, Jagmeet Singh and Andrew Scheer participated in the first federal election debate. Power & Politics host Vassy Kapelos breaks down the different strategies of the party leaders, including with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau's. He opted not to attend the debate.

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[JackLeMetis]

#PPC2019 Where were they? Not all Canadians are represented. We need to hear him debate and hear his propositions!

[abatos]

Trudeau paying the CBC 1.2 billion tax dollars annually to tell people what to think seems like a great deal.. for Trudeau that is.

[willp]

Trudeau's a no show for Canada too.

[easybreezy]

I think it is pretty easy to decide who to vote for when one of the leaders doesn’t respect Canadians enough to even bother showing up to a debate

[emkoravo]

*PPC not represented and just as legitimate as the greens and more so than the Bloc. Also, the party has more candidates than NDP and headed up by a leader with litres more experience in public office than Singh.

[steveconway]

Not one person or party protests about PPC kept from debate not one think about how corrupt or scared you must be to prevent a clean election
Didn't watch debate due to irrelevancy

[crhu]

It's inexcusable that Trudeau criticized Harper for skipping these debates & then skips himself.

[jeffmenard]

Need to give Maxime access & Trudeau owes us his presence..Canadian people deserve better!

[UnkyNik]

Vote to save your children's World

[jimschwartz]

Very disrespectful of Justin Trudeau to refuse to show up

[ppcli]

So, 1 English debate but 2 French debates. 200, 000 Job lost in Alberta but 9000 jobs saved in Quebec. We came that close to never hearing the name Justin Trudeau.

[donnamcdonald]

They should have put a tough RCMP officer or Jody Wilson Reybold in Justin Trudeau`s Leaders Debate booth.

[substanceabusee]

The debate was a joke Burnier wasn’t invited and justin didn’t show..

[anonymousctorfgod]

Voting should be easy this year. Vote for whoever media is against the most.

[ragethesystem-zltv]

Where can I see the full debates? I missed them.

[kloos]

Couldn't help but notice that the chief stooge was missing. Perhaps he had trouble putting on his argyle socks and brown shoes. Or maybe he didn't have anything intelligent to add to the conversation. Probably knew he was out-classed. Um hum gee huh uh huh um. These non-words are the only things that come out of Pretty Boy's mouth that make sense.

[wavioli]

Stop the lies. Keep corporate money out of my news. I dont want to be as miss informed as the people in the US. The CBC is a true Canadian institution

[briano]

Trudeau watching the game tape before stepping on the field, he better perform like it tho

[futuretrunks]

Where in the hell is Maxime Bernier in the Federal leader debates let him take all these other clowns head on!!!

[UltraAar]

VOTING MAD MAX BERNIER! PPC FOR THE WIN🍁