Elizabeth May: Should the Green Party leader be invited to the TV debates?
Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May speaks at a news conference in Ottawa in January. The broadcast consortium that hosts the televised election debates has decided May is not welcome to participate this time. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says she's shocked by a decision to exclude her from the televised party leaders' debates but said she is determined to take part.
"News that I will not be allowed to participate in the debates. In shock at the moment. I will be in those debates," May wrote on Twitter.
Marco Dubé, a spokesman for the broadcast consortium that hosts the debates, confirmed the group decided unanimously that a formal proposal will only be made to the leaders of recognized parties in the House of Commons -- Conservative, Liberal, NDP and Bloc Québécois.
The Green Party has yet to elect an MP to the Commons.
-With files from the Canadian Press
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