{"id":730908,"date":"2026-06-12T00:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730908\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T00:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T00:57:15","slug":"five-quebec-party-leaders-to-take-part-in-french-language-election-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730908\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Quebec party leaders to take part in French-language election debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quebec\u2019s major party leaders will face off in a French-language televised debate on Sept. 16, Noovo and Crave announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec, Quebec Liberal Party, Qu\u00e9bec solidaire, Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois and Conservative Party of Quebec have all agreed to participate, according to the broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>The debate will begin at 8 p.m. and will be moderated by Michel Bherer, host of Les d\u00e9batteurs de Noovo.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the first election debate presented by Noovo and Crave, both owned by Bell Media.<\/p>\n<p>The Sept. 16 event is the first leaders\u2019 debate announced for the campaign ahead of Quebec\u2019s Oct. 5 general election.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n<p>A consortium of media outlets, including The Gazette, has sent invitations to all five parties to take part in an English-language debate.<\/p>\n<p>The Gazette\u2019s On Quebec Politics newsletter by Andy Riga breaks down key election issues, from polling shifts to legislative manoeuvring to ideas circulating in francophone commentary that don\u2019t make it into English-language coverage.<\/p>\n<p>To sign up, <a href=\"https:\/\/cac02da7-7e38-4812-b59b-54afda02c09f.us07.ldpgs.com\/mg-newsletters?lid=4du3lknsuvdr&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Braze&amp;utm_campaign=montreal_fromthenewsroom_newsletter&amp;utm_content=2026-06-10&amp;utm_id=d15441ee-d8f2-4e6b-93af-ef6a2906dedc#:~:text=The%20Gazette%20Health-,On%20Quebec%20Politics,-Daily%20Headline%20News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">visit this page<\/a> and check the box labelled \u201cOn Quebec Politics\u201d before providing your email address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quebec\u2019s major party leaders will face off in a French-language televised debate on Sept. 16, Noovo and Crave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,218342,295,230663,197017,237060,66],"class_list":["post-730908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coalition-avenir-quebec-caq","tag-environment","tag-parti-quebecois-pq","tag-quebec-liberal-party","tag-quebec-solidaire","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}