00:00:21.220It's going hard, and it's going to come fast October 19th when we have our question.
00:00:26.340I found it interesting when I came in and they handed me this book.
00:00:30.000And it says, Why Canada Should Be Cherished, Not Cancelled, written by Mark Mielke, who happens to be the moderator here tonight.
00:00:37.560So I hope he's neutral. I hope he's not biased when he's asking questions tonight.
00:00:42.000I had a chance to talk with Keith Wilson earlier today. He said he was prepared for tonight.
00:00:47.380A lot of people have been waiting for this event because the previous one was kind of a blackout.
00:00:52.240We didn't hear very much about it, and everybody was sworn to secrecy.
00:00:55.860So it's going to be an interesting night tonight.
00:00:57.340Now, the interesting thing about this debate, it's only about an hour long. It's not a very long debate. It starts up about 5, 10, ends an hour later. We'll have opening statements. There's a number of questions as well, which we'll be hearing. And it's going to be fascinating to find out what happens. There won't be any reporting during the debate.
00:01:16.800Now, what's interesting about debates is people are always looking for a knockout blow, like somebody makes a really good point and you get some applause from one side or the other.
00:01:26.940That very rarely happens, unfortunately, when it comes to debates.
00:01:30.140In fact, I can only think of one time way back. I think it was probably 1988. Some of you might remember, those of you who are more seasoned, if you get my drift, might remember the vice presidential campaign debate between Lloyd Benson and Dan Quayle.
00:01:47.960you might remember that quail was comparing himself to john f kennedy at that point lloyd
00:01:53.560benson leaned into the microphone and said mr quail i knew john kennedy john kennedy was my friend
00:02:00.360sir you are no john kennedy i was just thinking about that so we'll have to see if there are any
00:02:05.460narco blows tonight it looks like people are heading into the theater it's going to be a
00:02:09.680fascinating evening i'm looking forward to it a lot of people have been waiting for this the uh
00:02:14.520The debate between Keith Wilson, who is arguing on behalf of the independence movement, and Jason Kenney, who wants to keep Alberta as part of Canada.
00:02:23.000Reporting from the Grand Hotel in downtown Calgary, or the Grand Theatre, rather, downtown Calgary, John Bolton.