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For the first and only time this election, the major federal party leaders (and Yves-François Blanchet) stepped onto a stage and debated each other in English.

None of the major parties have released a fully-costed platform. And both Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre have done everything possible to avoid being subjected to the indignity of being interviewed by real journalists in their native language.

And so for the majority of Canadians, this debate was their only real opportunity to see the candidates in an environment that wasn’t controlled by their staffers and attendants.

So how did they do? What did Canadians learn about how they’d run the country?

Will Pierre Poilievre buy me a house? Why doesn’t Mark Carney fight Donald Trump in the octagon? Is Jagmeet Singh enrolling in medical school in order to strengthen our healthcare system? And is Yves-François Blanchet more handsome and charming than Gilles Duceppe?

You’ll find out the answer to at least one of those questions in this paid subscriber-only, debate-edition of The Hatchet.