Priorities
The CBC reports that the date of a national candidates debate may change:
Bloq Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe wants Thursday’s French-language debate moved up a day to avoid a conflict with Montreal’s first-round NHL playoff game against Boston.
…The two-hour French debate is scheduled to start Thursday at 7 p.m. ET. The Montreal Canadiens kick off their round one playoff series aganst the Boston Bruins that night in Boston. Duceppe said he knows where Quebeckers TV’s will be tuned.
Politics is all well and good, but not if it is going to interfere with hockey. You have to have your priorities straight.
Please note that major national candidates and party leaders in Canada have to be fluent in both English and French. In the US we have a hard time finding people who can actually speak understandable English.
I would note that no one schedules candidate debates in the US during the World Series, and special sessions in Florida have to accommodate football games.
