The English debate, with its much higher stakes, was no better than the French. It too lacked substance or any meaningful exchanges because they had a schedule of topics to get through, and wouldn’t you know it, they weren’t going to let exchanges get interesting or involved – they just wanted to move on. Justin Trudeau tried to paint Erin O’Toole as weak, Singh tried to paint Trudeau as unable to fulfil promises. Trudeau warned that Singh was trying to instil cynicism among progressives because he refused to acknowledge any work done. Annamie Paul kept insisting that the key to everything was to work together. And Yves-François Blanchet and moderator Shachi Kurl started getting into it, and that gave Blanchet the victim card he was looking for in the Quebec media, particularly around Bill 21.
https://twitter.com/ChrisGNardi/status/1436172199430328323
https://twitter.com/AaronWherry/status/1436142521118334983
Trudeau: Why do experts give your climate plan an F?
Singh: Your track record gets an F! pic.twitter.com/7HaNMjt4kN— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) September 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/LindsayTedds/status/1436154327169581083
“Zero dollars in your platform!”
“Your platform isn’t costed.” pic.twitter.com/2l0OItbznU— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) September 10, 2021
The fact that they are still moaning the fact that we’re in an election is getting really tiresome – but not quite as tiresome as the fact that Trudeau still can’t make a convincing case for it. He keeps trying to go hard on insisting there are huge and sharp divisions between the different parties, which is why he needs the electoral support to carry on making tough choices about the pandemic. What he won’t spell out is that he needs that support because the spring session was a toxic swamp that stalled virtually all bills for months, including the budget implementation bill for the fall economic update and all of the pandemic supports therein. The fact that he refuses to say that, for whatever “happy warrior” shtick he thinks is going to win him points, just gives the other parties a pass for their petty bullshit in the spring, and the campaign of dishonesty that accompanied it, and it just keeps him from making an actual case. I don’t get it, but clearly this hasn’t blown over.
https://twitter.com/robert_hiltz/status/1436137253504536581
If you need lists of takeaways, you have plenty to choose from – CTV, Maclean’s, the Star, and CBC. The CBC also has a half-assed fact-check of things mentioned during the debate.
Here are 3 things I have not heard in this debate:
1) How do see turning the corner on this pandemic?
2) How will you stabilize household finances as aid winds down? (no, swelled savings are NOT shared by all)
3) Where will future growth come from? #cdnpoli— Dr. J Robson (@JenniferRobson8) September 10, 2021