Leaders forum on CBC
Posted Apr 19, 2012 2:45 pm.
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Party leaders battled it out in front of a live studio audience in a final debate.
CBC was host to the leadership forum broadcast on T.V. and radio four days before we head to the polls.
Liberal leader Raj Sherman set the tone by suggesting the election has turned into a choice between bullies and bigots, a shot at the front running, right-leaning Progressive Conservatives and Wildrose.
Wildrose leader Danielle Smith was booed a couple times, first when she said her party would not make any laws on contentious moral issues such as abortion and gay marriage and again when responding on her party’s stance on the science of global warming.
Regulating future oilsands development and environmental monitoring resulted in some heated comments as well.
Mason said his party supports the development of the oilsands, but with better environmental regulations and monitoring. The Liberals want to pace the rate of development and the PC’s said markets for our energy resources have to grow.
Redford says under her leadership the Progressive Conservatives will ensure the public health-care system remains public.
Smith defended her party’s position that private clinics can be used when people are on long waiting lists if their procedures are funded at the rate the public system covers.
