Farmers Work: Blaney and Bernier

farmers work: Blaney, one of only two francophones in the debate, said farmers work hard while Bernier likes to go jogging, according to National Observer. They farmers are not in the room tonight because they are working, Blaney said. Kellie Leitch quickly fired a salvo at rival Maxime Bernier, accusing him of being a liar for supposedly giving big corporations more than 200 million when he was industry minister while at the same championing himself as someone who wants to end corporate welfare.MP Steven Blaney also targeted Bernier, criticizing his rival's promise to get rid of the supply and demand system in agriculture. Bernier, the other francophone hopeful, defended his record as a cabinet minister in Stephen Harper's former Tory government even though he was not successful in getting the supply and demand system abolished. The other participants in the debate were Chris Alexander, Michael Chong, Erin O'Toole, Andrew Scheer, Pierre Lemieux, Rick Peterson and Andrew Saxton. Many of the anglophone candidates, including Lisa Raitt, Deepak Obhrai and Brad Trost, appeared to struggle in the debate and read pre prepared answers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.