Harper won't be in any televised debate shown nationally.
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The federal Conservative Party is refusing to participate in the traditional leaders’ debates run by a consortium of broadcasters including CBC, CTV and Global and will instead take part in as many as five independently staged debates in the run-up to the fall federal election.
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The Conservative decision puts pressure on other federal political parties to follow suit in abandoning the consortium-run debates which have largely controlled these events for decades.
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