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How To Watch Tonight’s French-Language Federal Leaders’ Debate

Laura Hampshire
Sep 8, 2021 | 10:05 AM
How To Watch Tonight's French-Language Federal Leaders' Debate


The Debate Broadcast Group has announced the themes and format of the French-language federal leaders’ debate.

Tonight’s debate will cover five themes (in alphabetical order):

The debate includes five segments, each corresponding to one of the five themes.

  • Climate
  • Cost of living and Public finances
  • Indigenous peoples, Cultural industries, and Cultural identity
  • Justice and Foreign policy
  • Pandemic and Healthcare

The debate includes five segments, each corresponding to one of the five themes. All five segments will include the following:

  • Question from a voter
  • Leader-to-leader debate
  • Leader-to-leader-to-leader debate
  • Question from a journalist to each leader
  • Open debate (all five leaders)

In August, Canadians were invited to submit their questions for the French-language leaders’ debate. A total of 895 questions were submitted by as many people.

The debate in French will take place on Wednesday, September 8 at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. EDT.

The five leaders invited by the Leaders’ Debates Commission are (in alphabetical order by last name) Yves-François Blanchet (Bloc Québécois), Erin O’Toole (Conservative Party of Canada), Annamie Paul (Green Party of Canada), Jagmeet Singh (New Democratic Party) and Justin Trudeau (Liberal Party of Canada).

Last Wednesday, September 1, representatives from the five political parties took part in random draws to determine the following: time of advance visit to the venue, on-stage lectern position, order of questioning during the debate, order of arrival at the venue and order of the post-debate press conferences.

The debate will be broadcast live online, on TV and on radio.

You can stream the debate online at cpac.ca

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