This page always have difficulty following leaders' debates in French. I consider myself to be functional in French, but by no means fluent. However, I would like to be able to hear the leaders speaking in French, and still hope that one of these years the debates are subtitled rather than dubbed.
It also makes it hard to follow when there was very little actually being debated. The rules of last night's debate kept the four party leaders from rubbing up against each and making a few sparks. Given that the holiday season is usually when greatest hits packages are trotted out, the leaders opted to oblige the audience with familiar favourites: Paul Martin - "Greatest Country in the World", Gilles Duceppe - "Gomery, Gomery, Gomery", Stephen Harper - "Who Wants a Tax Cut?", Jack Layton - "Priorities and Results"
The apparent surprise of the evening was Stephen Harper's claim he would not use the Notwithstanding Clause to revoke same-sex marriage. Either Harper's interpreter couldn't stand him or the CPC leader is completely clueless on the issue. This page also heard Harper say during the course of the debate that he was still going to allow a free vote in the House of Commons on SSM. And he said while a CPC government would recognize existing same-sex marriages, it would bar future marriages. This is what some pundits are calling a clarified position?
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