Don't get me wrong, I love the Greens. I voted for Mike Morrice twice and would have voted Aislinn Clancy if I hadn't already moved. I would love to see the Greens on the debate stage, but they knew the rules and chose to fall out of line with them.
I'm also not sure why you think if a party isn't national, that they don't count. At the time the election was called, the BQ represented 10% of Canadians. Do you think those voices shouldn't count? Do you think nationalism and patriotism should be a prereq to get into the debate? I'm really trying to figure out where your argument lands because it sounds like you are against dictators, but also want to dictate specifically who can and can't be on the debate stage which would be the actions of a ...
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