August 24, 2021
People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier is “not surprised” by the decision of the Leaders’ Debates Commission to exclude him from the two government-run leaders’ debates in September. Bernier says that the decision merely “confirms the existence of the political establishment cartel which has sought to deny the existence of the PPC since its inception.”
To be eligible to participate in the debate, a party leader must either have at least one MP in the House of Commons, have a national support level of at least 4%, five days after the date of the election call or have received at least 4% of the vote in the 2019 federal election.
The PPC garnered 1.64% of the vote in 2019 and currently has no MPs in office, but they came extremely close to the 4% cut-off. The debates commission calculated the PPC’s average level of national support at 3.27%. A recent poll by Mainstreet Research shows the PPC polling at 6.6% — surpassing the cut-off.
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