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Montreal's major English-language broadcast media organizations have come together to invite the leaders of each main political party to a debate on Sept. 20.
Quebec Premier François Legault will not be participating in an English-language debate ahead of the fall election.
A spokesperson for the premier confirmed Friday they had “declined the invitations for two debates, one of which is in English.”
“The premier will already take part in the debates organized by the TVA and Radio-Canada networks,” Ewan Sauves said in an email. “It’s important to understand that each debate requires significant and non-negligible preparation time.”
Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon also revealed he will not take part in the event, saying the “official and common language in Quebec is French.”
“We will of course be available to answer questions from English-speaking journalists,” he wrote on Twitter.
Montreal’s major English-language broadcast media organizations have come together to invite the leaders of each main political party to a debate before Quebecers head to the polls on Oct. 3.
Legault and the leaders of the Quebec Liberal Party, Québec solidaire, the Parti Québécois and the Conservative Party of Quebec have all been invited to take part in a 90-minute live debate on Sept. 20.
The event will be broadcast live or live-streamed on CBC, CTV, Global and CJAD, the organizations that make up the English media debate consortium.
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