Watch live: CBC's Cape Breton-Canso-Antigonish all-candidates debate
CBC Cape Breton invites you to an all-candidates' debate for the upcoming federal election in the riding of Cape Breton-Canso-Antigonish.
Steve Sutherland, host of CBC Radio's Information Morning Cape Breton, will moderate on Thursday April 10, starting at 6:30 p.m. AT.
All candidates have been invited to participate in the debate at the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre, 606 Reeves Street. The debate will be held in the centre's Bear Head Room. The candidates include:
Conservative - Allan MacMaster
Independent - Rebecca Wall
Liberal - Jaime Battiste
NDP - Joanna Clark
PPC - Ryan Smyth
Doors open at 6 p.m and registration is not required. The debate will be livestreamed here, and on the CBC News Nova Scotia YouTube channel.
CBC Radio is also recording the debates and will air excerpts on Information Morning and Mainstreet in Cape Breton leading up to the federal election on April 28.
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