Grüne Partei und Kommission erzielen Einigung über den Ausschluss von Debatten
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-green-party-federal-leaders-debates-commission-exclusion-settlement/
Grüne Partei und Kommission erzielen Einigung über den Ausschluss von Debatten
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-green-party-federal-leaders-debates-commission-exclusion-settlement/
4 Kommentare
This story seems like a good reminder of the commission’s issues in April — and that, even though we have a minority Parliament, it’s not clear what has been done about them.
I bet the settlement amounts to an apology, and I kind of think it should be extended to the rest of us at the very least. That was a ridiculous stunt the commission pulled. How about next time take responsibility for writing terrible rules instead of making someone else pay.
Perhaps it could have been done a different way, but the Greens being excluded was a very good decisions. The party is a clown show, whose „co-leader“ got fifth in his own riding. He even lied about why they were missing so many candidates to distract from their internal problems. Why should they get equal time on the stage to the other leaders who are actually running campaigns?
I think it’s more likely than not that the party elected some nutjob like Lascaris as their leader if May followers her word and steps down. I hope they don’t get invited to a leader’s debate ever again.
It was nonsense excluding them at the last minute. I think it’s debatable if the Greens met the criteria or not but the decision should have been made well in advance. Every day matters in a campaign, wasting some for a debate you’re told hours before you’re excluded from is incredibly unfair.