It’s hard to think of anything as stereotypically Canadian as rescheduling an election debate because of a hockey game. But it really happened.
The French-language debate was supposed to be held Thursday, the same day the Montreal Canadiens are scheduled to face the Boston Bruins in their first playoff game.
But on Sunday, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe suggested a change of date.
“All I’m asking is that the debate take place Wednesday so that Quebeckers have as much access to this debate as Canadians,” he said. “We all know that hockey is very popular in Canada and in Quebec, which is why it would be a better idea to push the French debate back to allow hockey fans to watch the debate as well as the game on Thursday night.”
Rather than take issue with the Bloc leader’s nationalistic semantics, the other party heads conceded the point.
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