Green Party of Canada exploring legal options after debate exclusion: Pedneault

Green Party of Canada exploring legal options after debate exclusion: Pedneault

Green Party of Canada co-leader Jonathan Pedneault says his team is exploring its legal options after the Leaders' Debates Commission (LDC) announced this week it would rescind the party's invitations to both of the 2025 election debates.

Green Party of Canada Co-Chief Jonathan Pedneault called for the resignation of the Chiefs' Debate Commission, while he said that he was still evaluating all options available to him in connection with his exclusion from the debate.

Green Party leader says keeping him out of election debates is ‘undemocratic’ — but there are no plans to fight the decision

Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault said the commission’s last-minute decision to exclude his party from the federal leaders’ debates is “unjust.”

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May, who first participated in a leaders' debate in 2008, said the rules over the years have changed and shifted but the Green Party has always met the criteria to participate.