Tuesday October 8, 2024 | VICTORIA, BC
Political analysis by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends [Check back after 8 pm for analysis]
BC ELECTION CAMPAIGN DAY 18 of 28
Your 28-day voter’s guide for BC Election 2024
A livestreamed and televised BC leaders debate — the only one in this 43rd BC election — is on tonight at 6:30 pm, live from Vancouver. [Analysis to follow on this page, revisit later]
- The debate is a CBC consortium debate. It will be livestreamed on CBC at https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6528808
- The debate will be broadcast live on Global BC, Global Okanagan and BC1, from 6:30 pm to 8 p.m.
Party leaders:
The BC NDP Leader is David Eby, the BC Conservative Leader is John Rustad, and the BC Green Leader is Sonia Furstenau.
They also participated in a previous debate that was held on CKNW radio on October 2.
Moderator:
Tonight’s debate will be moderated by Shachi Kurl who is president of the Angus Reid Institute (which mostly takes a center-right view on provincial political issues).
Debate process:
Every debate seems to have its own format and tone. But overall these events are for voters. People can learn a lot about a leader by how they answer questions, their body language, and their overall approach to the debate.
Loyal supporters will be reconvinced and undecided voters will possibly have more information by which to make their voting decision on October 19 (or in advance voting October 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16).
Post-debate analysis:
After tonight’s debate, there will be analysis posted here on Island Social Trends (revisit this page), and on BC1 TV with Chris Gailus, Sophie Lui, Keith Baldrey and Richard Zussman.
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