John,

You won’t believe this.

The Leaders’ Debates Commission has once again changed its criteria so they can easily exclude the PPC on the basis of dubious polls, as they did in 2021.

Not only that, but they lost our submission about these criteria when they consulted political parties last year!

Let me explain.

You probably remember that I was invited to the debates during the 2019 election.



But in 2021, the Commission changed its criteria and I ended up not being invited.

I was disqualified because the PPC didn’t get at least 4% on average in polls published at the beginning of the campaign.

However, that’s because they used dubious polling results in which the PPC barely registered.

For that reason, our average was only 3.27%, even though our support was in fact much higher and we ended up scoring 4.9% on election day.

It’s important to note that another criterion in 2021, which we didn’t meet at the time but do meet today, was to have scored at least 4% in the previous election.

If the Commission had kept the same criteria, I would have automatically qualified to take part in this year’s debates.

But, surprise, surprise! Yesterday the Commission announced another change in their participation criteria, and dropped that one that would have automatically qualified me!

This time, parties must now meet not one, but two of these three criteria: 1) have at least one MP; 2) have at least 4% on average in the polls at the beginning of the campaign; or 3) run candidates in at least 90% of ridings.

It’s still possible for the PPC to qualify, but we are again at the mercy of dubious polls, some of which we know deliberately exclude the PPC from the list of potential responses, which inevitably understates our level of support.

But that’s not all.

The Commission states in its document that when consulting the parties about the new rules last year, they got submissions from all major parties, but not ours, which argued that the 2021 rules should be kept.

They responded to us today that there was some glitch in their email system, but that they had finally found our message and will now review it!!!

Nobody is naïve enough to believe that this will make any difference.

John, isn’t it weird that a Commission is kept alive, and public funds are spent to carry consultations with experts and parties, only to come up every few years with new rules that make the participation of the PPC less likely?

This change only has one obvious purpose, one that unites the whole political establishment in Ottawa: Making it easier to exclude the PPC.

These new rules only affect me, the leader of the only new party to emerge forcefully on the federal political scene in decades, and none of the other leaders expected to participate.

They want to deny a voice to 840,000 Canadian voters who supported the PPC in 2021.

And coincidentally, the only submission they lost when consulting the parties is ours!

What an absurd farce!

John, once again we have proof that the establishment will do anything, including manipulate our democratic system, to kill our Party.

But they won’t succeed if we fight back.

Please donate $25 today so we can put more money aside for the election campaign and show them how wrong they are!

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Thank you,
-Max

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