Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it's also important to know that these are not journalists at YouTube. YouTube is a distributor. They are not production experts. They are not journalists. I'm not sure who they would get to moderate a debate. They are distributors of video.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I agree with my colleague. We want to move this forward. I'm not going to talk about what they did and who moderated, and all of that. This is about finding a solution. That's why we're here today, to find a solution, and look forward not backward. Canadians were not well ser

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The moderator is a good example. It really needs to be someone who is following politics and really understands the issues of the day. Also, even in the production, journalism is involved—the way the shots are, the sets, etc.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't think we should ever be forced into doing anything that we normally would be doing. We've always run debates in the past, and we want to run them again.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We definitely have to have one in English and one in French. I think there was a year in which we did two in French and two in English. I can't remember when that was, but absolutely, we need to have at least one in each language.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  So I—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was just going to say that we want to be a part of whatever is decided.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's not to say other debates couldn't happen either, around this. It would be for there to be one big English-language debate that all Canadians can watch with lots of others happening.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We were holding out in the hopes that we were going to have an English debate, which we would have aired on the main network. That never happened. We always hoped it would. We did run the French debate on our news channel, and we did stream it live.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was because we were not putting on those debates. We were holding out that we were going to do that. Again, as my colleague said earlier, there were production and journalistic values in putting things on. We wanted to put on our debate and, as I said earlier, we ran the Fren

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would agree with my colleagues. It's a negotiation, and it changes with how the world is as well. Set rules don't always work, depending on what's going on in the political realm. Again, I don't think it's our place to decide any penalties. I think that's something you woul

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