How to Watch Tonight’s Federal Election Leaders’ Debate Livestream

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Canada’s federal election is two weeks away, and tonight six federal party leaders will take part in the official English-language debate, a two-hour affair which starts at 4PM PDT/7PM EDT, hosted at the Canadian Museum of History, in Gatineau, Quebec, in front of a live audience.

This is the only debate where all six federal party leaders will get to debate each other in English. Let the mud-slinging begin. Here’s who will be present:

  • Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau
  • Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer
  • NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
  • Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet
  • Green Party Leader Elizabeth May
  • People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier




The debate will have five themes:

  • Affordability and economic insecurity
  • Environment and energy
  • Indigenous issues
  • National and global leadership
  • Polarization, human rights and immigration

You can the debate from the livestream video below, a Canadian Debate Production Partnership, which consists of CBC News, Radio-Canada, CTV News, Global News, Toronto Star and Torstar chain, HuffPost Canada, HuffPost Québec, La Presse, Le Devoir and L’actualité:

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