Did anyone watch the debate tonight?

What did everyone think?

  • tleb@lemmy.ca
    2·
    4 hours ago

    I thought it wasn’t adversarial enough to actually learn anything about any of them. If they went at each other more, we’d see how they’d perform against PP.

    My personal highlight was Carney mentioning a portable health record. No details on the implementation, but it’s nice to hear a politician talk about that.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I thought it wasn’t adversarial enough

      I thought it was refreshingly civil for a political debate.

      • tleb@lemmy.ca
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Party leadership debates are always like this. However, I don’t think it demonstrated how well any of these candidates would do versus PP.

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
    1·
    6 hours ago

    Frank Baylis impressed me.

    He had a lot of good fleshed out ideas and critiques. I initially dismissed him based on his site and platform, but hearing his ideas fleshed out in the debate I really liked him.

    I really liked how Baylis broke down Trump’s tactics and rhetoric, he felt like he had an excellent read on that situation.

    Carney I liked, but I don’t think he’s winning people over, I was hoping for a little more from him, but I did agree with all of his answers. He came across as a quiet but firm leader, which works well for heading departments, but I worry about him as a statesman.

    I still think Carney is the best candidate, Baylis wouldn’t have enough time for Canada to get to know him.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      My gut reaction to Baylis was that he felt like a pre-allience PC more than what I would hope to see from the Liberals.

      Anyone who suggests that running a business is a relevant qualification for running government is suspect in my view.

      Government is very much not a business, and shouldn’t be run like one.

  • LittleTarsier@lemmy.caOP
    3·
    16 hours ago

    I’ll say that I was disappointed in Mark Carney’s performance tonight. Karina Gould really impressed me.

    • RandAlThor@lemmy.ca
      3·
      16 hours ago

      I went to youtube to look for a replay and caught the end of Q&A with the press. Carney was a bit testy and somewhat arrogant.

    • sbvEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Apparently Carney didn’t have a great showing in the French debate either.