Global News published this video item, entitled “Conservative Party leadership debate: Charest, Baber, Aitchison clash | LIVE” – below is their description.
The Conservative Party of Canada is set to hold a final leadership debate Wednesday, with plans to run a bilingual format with the first 45 minutes in English followed by another 45 minutes of questions in French, but candidates Pierre Poilievre and Leslyn Lewis say they have no plans to attend.
As of Tuesday, Jean Charest, Roman Baber and Scott Aitchison are expected to attend. Lewis had expressed concerns about the need for another debate and in a recent open letter asked whether it would cover topics including abortion and the World Economic Forum, issues she said members are inquiring about.
Poilievre also said he would not attend, saying on social media he was focused on getting out the vote. Under Conservative rules, candidates who do not attend party debates will be fined $50,000.
The decision to hold a third debate came after the party’s Leadership Election Organizing Committee surveyed members.
The campaign is set to come to an end Sept. 10 when a winner will be announced in Ottawa.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Voting is a method for a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, in order to make a collective decision or express an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting. Residents of a place represented by an elected official are called “constituents”, and those constituents who cast a ballot for their chosen candidate are called “voters”. There are different systems for collecting votes, but while many of the systems used in decision-making can also be used as electoral systems, any which cater for proportional representation can only be used in elections.
In smaller organizations, voting can occur in different ways. Formally via ballot to elect others for example within a workplace, to elect members of political associations or to choose roles for others. Informally voting could occur as a spoken agreement or as a verbal gesture like a raised hand or electronically.
The World Economic Forum, based in Cologny, Geneva Canton, Switzerland, is an international NGO, founded in 1971. The WEF’s mission is stated as “committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas”.
