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Round 1: @JustinTrudeau wins because Scheer makes it about about @JustinTrudeau - and Elizabeth May’s answer acknowledges all the great work we have done to raise people out of poverty and restore 🇨🇦’s reputation on the world stage.
Round 2: Bernier’s extreme tweets ... dude bro gets talked over ... Scheer barely different ... May gets compared to Chavez ... Bernier makes his point best to the Bloc ... Trudeau actually labels the politics of fear what it is and defines Canada against the politics of fear.
Round 3: intergov affairs. Bernier will stay in his lane. Singh makes case for pharmacare. Scheer will get existing trade deal/kill carbon tax. May wants Council of 🇨🇦 Govs. Blanchet says stay out of QC issues. Trudeau points to record of cooperation, will save climate plan.
Round 4: Singh asks Trudeau a QP question. @JustinTrudeau points out all we have done, and points to a future of fighting climate change, poverty, and creating jobs. Then it sounds like QP without a speaker ... this format is suffering from a lack of structure.
Round 5: Bill 21 to Singh. Scheer vs. S? It’s a love in. May vs S? Another love in. Blanchet vs S? QC’s business. Trudeau vs S.? Trudeau is the only one who has said his federal gov would intervene if necessary. @JustinTrudeau kills him with kindness. Bernier vs S? QC’s business
Round 6: Polarization vs Unity vs free speech. Singh. Ties anxiety on inequality to polarization. Scheer self-reliance, but Trudeau polarizing. May loses time. Blanchet history lesson no time. @JustinTrudeau 🇨🇦sagree polarization bad. Bernier:our immigration levels are too high.
Round 7: Scheer asks Trudeau about polarization. @JustinTrudeau points to CPC tax break larger than many people earn. Singh gets in a zinger. May explains why NDP and Green tax plan might not work. Blanchet defends SNC and innocent workers against Scheer’s anti-QC bias.
Round 8: Indigenous rights/energy corridor - Scheer. Min of Ind. Consultation and build things. May tears into CPC record. Blanchet - QC will never agree. @JustinTrudeau explains why CPC still doesn’t get it. Look - JWR. Bernier - QC won’t agree. Singh and Scheer boo Trudeau.
Round 9: UNDRIP. Scheer. May. Blanchet. All agree with it. @JustinTrudeau explains how we have worked on implementing principles but more to do. Bernier wants to establish property rights on reserve and impose self-reliance. Singh highlights all that needs to be done.
Round 10: May - issue is climate change. @JustinTrudeau - a climate plan that Scheer will turn back on. @JustinTrudeau to May “a slogan is not a plan” ... May gives credit to Paul Martin 🤷🏻♂️. Scheer & Trudeau duet. Zinger from Singh. Bernier? May & Blanchet no common ground.
Round 11: $2T household debt. balance budget? May balance the budget in 5yrs by taxing rich. Blanchet cut oil subsidies, tax rich, tax internet. @JustinTrudeau invest in 🇨🇦s instead - 1M jobs, 800K out of poverty. Bernier let Corps grow. Singh pharmacare. Scheer tax cuts no ODA.
Round 12: income inequality and affordability. May tax code review. Blanchet need to respect QC jurisdiction. @JustinTrudeau cut low income taxes, more CCB & OAS, invest in students. Bernier cut to balance and then lower taxes. Singh also tax wealthy. Scheer talks about JT.
Round 13: Equalization? Blanchet says oil wealth is used as a threat; so equalization should be to fight GHGs. @JustinTrudeau defends equalization. QCer is a Canadian. Bernier will lessen equalization. Singh lets Blanchet speak. Scheer equates LPC and BQ. May ends oil sands 2030
Round 14: Blanchet to Scheer - how will you defend Bill 21? Scheer: by not intervening. Blanchet will actually defend it. Moderator, Trudeau and Scheer all speaking. Singh and May and Blanchet all speaking. Need to cut the mic’s.
Round 15: cutting business GHGs? Blanchet - QC uses cap and trade. @JustinTrudeau - 2 views LPC will fight climate change, CPC will rip up the only plan. Bernier? Singh explains why climate in crisis - blames Liberals. Scheer blames liberals. May believes house is on fire.
Round 16: pipeline purchase? @JustinTrudeau Transition requires oil prosperity. plan that will work or no plan? Bernier tax needs to be $300. Trudeau says Singh building a refinery. Singh denies. Scheer keeps talking over PMJT. May worries about 30% by 2030. BQ no QC pipeline.
Round 17: Middle class. Scheer doesn’t answer question about $50K tax cut to wealthy. Blanchet wants a single tax form for QC - Scheer will let QC out of CRA tax return. Bernier will balance budget. May wants Green balance of power.
Round 18: Bernier asks Scheer why he is a Lib? Scheer points out Bernier’s record. Scheer will pay for tax credits by cutting foreign aid. Singh attacks Trudeau. @JustinTrudeau will invest in Canadians and fight climate change. May’s targets higher. PMJT last word CO2 price helps
So proud of the performance of @JustinTrudeau in tonight’s debate. It will make my time at the doors that much easier over the next two weeks #ChooseForward
