Greens file court challenge over debate snub

Political | 208158 hits | Mar 31 11:32 pm | Posted by: Hyack

The Green Party of Canada has filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal to challenge a broadcast consortium's exclusion of leader Elizabeth May from the election campaign's televised leaders debates.

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by QBC
Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:39 pm
by saturn_656
Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:48 pm
Maybe they'll let her sit at the grown ups table next time.
by dino_bobba_renno
Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:51 pm
They're gonna cave in on this one.
by Lemmy
Fri Apr 01, 2011 1:54 pm
Easy solution: Harper, Iggy and Jack tell the producers of the debate "If she's in, count me out." End of story. The courts may demand May be included but they sure as hell can't demand that anyone else show up.
by ShepherdsDog
Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:25 pm
Martin had a good idea. Hold a secondary round of debates, the kiddie round table, where leaders of registered federal parties without an elected member get to say their spiel. Stick that buck toothed sour puss there.
by Guy_Fawkes
Fri Apr 01, 2011 2:29 pm
"ShepherdsDog" said
Martin had a good idea. Hold a secondary round of debates, the kiddie round table, where leaders of registered federal parties without an elected member get to say their spiel. Stick that buck toothed sour puss there.

I'd watch that!
by PENATRATOR
Fri Apr 01, 2011 3:30 pm
Including this Bull Dike takes away tv time for the REAL party leaders, she is nothing but a charade who will use the media to her advantage to garner support from bleeding hearts so they demand she gets on, by making the big boys look bad. She is pathetic. Go back to the states
by CDN_PATRIOT
Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:37 pm
What she doesn't understand is that no one outside her pathetic excuse for a 'party' really gives a damn what she has to say. Just another screaming little kid that needs to be heard, but has nothing relevant to say or contribute. Go back whence thou camest, Ms. May.

-J.
by Canadian_Mind
Sun Apr 03, 2011 6:24 pm
She probs got picked on a lot in school, now wants to show off how "good" she has become.
by RUEZ
Sun Apr 03, 2011 6:31 pm
How can you force a TV network to put you on their televised debate? If she wants to be on TV so bad maybe the cable access channel in Vancouver has an opening for her.
by raydan
Sun Apr 03, 2011 6:53 pm
I knew something existing on a ruling for this...
The Green Party raised the challenge after its exclusion from the 1988 debate, arguing that CBC, CTV and Global violated the Television Broadcasting Act by not providing equal time to each political party. The Ontario court ruled that the debates were not partisan events, which meant equal time rules didn’t apply. “While participants in a debate may very well be partisan, the program itself, because it presented more than one view, was not,” the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission wrote in its notice explaining the decision.

The Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear the case.

...but.
...at least one local channel in Ontario is volunteering to take the place of the major networks. Channel Zero on Wednesday said it would invite all leaders - including Ms. May - to a debate in its Hamilton studios that would be made available to other stations as requested.
by martin14
Sun Apr 03, 2011 7:49 pm
"raydan" said

...at least one local channel in Ontario is volunteering to take the place of the major networks. Channel Zero on Wednesday said it would invite all leaders - including Ms. May - to a debate in its Hamilton studios that would be made available to other stations as requested.

hmm, that could work as the kiddie round table...
by romanP
Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:16 pm
Why do we need a kiddie round table? A million people voted for the Green Party in the last election. If a million people don't deserve to be represented simply because they don't have a seat in Parliament, then we don't have a democracy. This isn't about what you think of the Green Party or its policies - if you don't like them, don't vote for them.
by saturn_656
Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:19 pm
"romanP" said
Why do we need a kiddie round table? A million people voted for the Green Party in the last election. If a million people don't deserve to be represented simply because they don't have a seat in Parliament, then we don't have a democracy. This isn't about what you think of the Green Party or its policies - if you don't like them, don't vote for them.

What about the people that voted for the other minor parties without MP's? Or is it only the Greens that deserve special consideration?

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