Debate Highlights

Super Québec Vote Plus looks back on the highlights of four nights of Quebec leaders debates:

Debate I - Charest-Marois-Legault-David

Debate Q: What will you do for the middle class?
Charest: Continue to screw them in a responsible fashion.
David: Abolish them.

Debate Q: Did you close your eyes to corruption?
Charest: No, they were never open to begin with.

Debate Q: how will you get rid of corruption in party financing?
David: we will stay at 4% or less in the polls so that no one wants to donate to us.

Debate Q: who would you be in a minority government with?
Legault: no one. We would lose each vote on a vote-by-vote basis.

Debate Q: how will each Quebecer have their own family doctor in one year?
Legault: by each setting their next appointment for fourteen years from now.

Debate Question: how do intend to you pay for your election promises?
David: Quebec is rich!!!!
Legault: Pay doctors more!!!
Charest: Run a deficit for nine years!!!
Marois: [note to self: keep quiet and be glad no one is asking me anything...]

Final words:
David: please remember, we still exist.
Charest: Marois' priority is a referendum; I have no priorities.
Legault: I'm tired of the old parties, of which I was a senior minister a few years ago.
Marois: We need to be a sovereign country, and I intend to do absolutely nothing about that.
Quebecers: WTF?!?!

- Congratulations pour in for Francoise David for not being Amir Khadir during Debate

- Aussant participates in leaders' debates by yelling at his TV


Face-a-Face I: Charest-Marois

- Excluded from tonight's debate, Legault to stay home and play Angry Birds

- Three men dead after playing Face-a-Face drinking game, where they drink each time Charest interrupts by saying "MADAME MAROIS..."
 
- Charest and Marois high-five each other for each having achieved record high debt by different measurements.

- Bill 101 most important issue in campaign, says nobody

Face-a-Face II: Charest-Legault

-Lights flicker in studio as Legault and Charest debate reducing Hydro Quebec's budget

- Charest and Legault, showing their connection with the concerns of today's Quebecers, argue about 1998 grocery store sale

- Legault promises shorter waiting times at Provigo, a cashier for every family


Face-a-Face III: Marois-Legault

- Marois spent $11 million to visit Gaspesie and Iles-de-la-Madeleine; says she didn't know the price of ordering movies in hotel room

- Legault raises spectre of "Caribous in a Ravine"; Marois thinks it would make good sequel to "Snakes on a Plane"

- Legault admits he was once Chairman of Air Transat; immediately quits as CAQ leader in disgrace

- Aussant still confident of being allowed to participate in Debate