First debate doesn’t inspire great hopes for the rest of the 2019 campaign

Many thought NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh won the debate, though it was mostly a matter of beating low expectations.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, NDP Leader Jagmeet SIngh, and Green Leader Elizabeth May took part in the Sept. 12 Maclean's/CityTV leaders' debate. As it was, the affair was pretty much a debate-free zone, overflowing with accusations, unsubstantiated opinions, and incoherent back and forth with a distinct lack of reasonable argument, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

September 18, 2019

OTTAWA—It’s debatable, as it were, whether the Liberals’ Justin Trudeau made a serious mistake in not showing up for the first leaders’ verbal sparring match.

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