Moldy Peaches

Is it just me or did the debates actually get worse? No leader came out of there with a leg up. All performed reasonable well and all had their small errors and strong comments. The format, however, was a sleeper.

My suggestion for the next election is to scrap the French debates. The two, separate language discussion sessions just do not work for a federal election. A new format with the "language of your choice" would work way better and here is why.

One, the French language debate is really a debate about 1 province (although there were questions from outside Quebec and questions about minority language outside the province) and that isn’t fair. The party leaders pandered all night to the voters in a single province where two parties will win seats. A single debate would not disallow French or English to be spoken but would actually ensure some sense of fairness to the discussion.

Second, one or two less language debates free up time to have policy discussions. Why not have the party leaders draw names and have them debate each other for one hour on a range of issues up to 3 times. Each of the leaders go one on one for one hour with a set of questions and see who has the best vision for Canada.

Here is hoping the major television networks realize that the debates are meant to inform voters not put them to sleep.