[RACooper]

Personally I can see why they would want to limit the debate to federally recognized parties (which requires I think 2% of the vote?) in order to limit the scope of the debate... for example I think there was close to 17 parties running in the riding I lived in while stationed in Ottawa two elections ago.

I think a change in format to where each of the participants was forced to follow the rules of debate would be nice... and avoid the constant interruptions and chatter...