Goldstein: Canada's official leaders' debates a farce

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It\u0027s time to scrap Canada\u0027s Leaders\u0027 Debates Commission, which organizes the official televised leaders\u0027 debates in federal elections.

The moderator of this largely incomprehensible debate — Shachi Kurl, president of the Angus Reid Institute — is being criticized for cutting the party leaders off when they wandered off topic — although Liberals seem more upset with her than Conservatives, apparently feeling this hurt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau more than it did Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole.Article content

The key to these leaders’ debates working is to have one competent moderator who is in charge of the format and the only one asking questions. Or any one of a dozen other capable journalists in the country with television broadcast experience, with the caution that whoever is chosen is going to be accused of being “biased” and will not satisfy everyone.But the real problem with the Debate Broadcast Group — as its name implies — is that the television networks carrying it want their own media representative featured prominently on the show asking questions of the political leaders, which inevitably turns it into a train wreck.

 

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