There is a lot to discuss in Canada His choice on April 28thIncluding tariffs, inequality and President Trump’s threats to annex the country.
However, a political debate in Montreal on Wednesday evening has no first -class slot. This is because many Canadians would rather see a hockey game that evening.
A French -speaking debate between five leaders of Canadian political parties was planned for 8 p.m. East. But after two party leaders complained that the debate would compete with a 7:00 p.m. Montreal Canadiens Game, the start time of the debate was postponed by two hours.
“At this crucial moment in the election campaign, citizens have to miss nothing and at the same time follow the decisive period of the hockey game that could enable the Montreal Canadiens to reach the playoffs” said in an explanation on Tuesday.
Formerly on Tuesday, one of the party leaders who demanded the change change, Yves François blanchet from Bloc Québécois, told reporters that he wanted to see the game “like everyone else”.
“But now I think some questions in the future of Canada and Quebec’s future are very serious and that the debate might be given some attention,” he said. “If the debate can be changed, let us do it.”
Another guide, Jagmeet Singh from the New democratic partyWas quoted In an explanation that the planning conflict “looks like Canada” from the touch “.
“This kind of political discussion should not compete with something that means so much for so many,” said Singh, said Mr. Singh. According to the CBC.
For Canadians, the game means quite a bit. Hockey is the national pastime, and this special competition – the last game of the regular season of the Canadians – has high missions.
Many people in Montreal are nervous that, as the team is known, the Habs, which until recently had the chance to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in four years.
After you have lost your last three games The Canadia must either Beat the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday or connect them to the regulation. Otherwise you have to hope that Columbus Blue JacketsThe team in the overall ranking loses against the New York Islander on Thursday.
Mr. François blanchet said reporters on Tuesday that he wished that the Canadiens had won on Monday.
“Then we would have been ready with this season, and then the playoffs started,” he said.
Instead, the Habs were beaten by the Chicago Blackhawks second worst team In the National Hockey League.
Montrealers feel “a lightness in the crotch” when their team is in the playoffs, but on Monday the city mixed “carefully via egg shells”, the columnist NHL.com, Dave Stubbs wrote after the loss.
“If you want to see that an entire city has an attachment, this is the place,” he wrote.
