the speaker chairs the debates at the house of commons.
the speaker chairs the debates at the house of commons.
who chairs the debates at the house of commons?
the speaker
the panel of chairs (formerly the chairmen's panel) are members of the house of commons of the united kingdom responsible for chairing public bill committees and other general committees, as well as debates in westminster hall, the parallel debating chamber. the three deputy speakers, who are automatically members, are responsible for chairing committees of the whole house. other members may act as temporary chairs of committees of the whole house. the panel is not itself generally thought of as a committee, but it does have the power to meet to consider matters relating to procedure in the general committees and report its findings to the house of commons.
panel of chairs
traditionally, party leaders participated in at least two nationally-televised debates during the federal election – at least one each in english and french. these debates were produced by a consortium of canada's major television networks. in may 2015, the conservatives said they would not participate in the consortium debates and instead would take part in as many as five independently staged debates in the run-up to the fall federal election. ultimately, the conservatives agreed to participate in a french-language debate organized by the consortium of broadcasters as one of their five debates. the new democratic party confirmed that tom mulcair would accept every debate where the prime minister was present. the ndp had previously confirmed their intention to participate in both of the consortium debates before stephen harper withdrew but ultimately only participated in the french language consortium debate which included the conservatives. liberal leader justin trudeau attended the "maclean's", "globe and mail", and french consortium debates; and the liberals confirmed he would attend the other debates. the bloc québécois attended the french language consortium debate and confirmed their attendance at the french-language tva debate. the green party attended the "maclean's" and french language consortium debates, and confirmed their intention to participate in the english language consortium debate. strength in democracy, which had the same number of seats in the house of commons at dissolution as the greens and bloc québécois, were not invited to participate in any of the televised debates. the leaders of the party objected to their exclusion and launched a petition demanding that all parties represented in parliament be invited to the debates. other minor parties without representation in the house of commons were not invited to participate in any of the televised debates.
canadian leaders' debates