Upcoming English leaders' debate to feature questions from the public

UPDATE: Thank you for your questions!We have what we need for the leaders for the debate. However, ifyou have questions about the election send them our way toballotbrief@cbc.ca.

Quebec's first-ever televised provincial leaders' debate in English is just under a month away, and will feature questions from the public.

Those who want to ask a question of the four party leaders can send them todebate2018@cbc.ca.

Quebec Debate 2018 airsSept. 17 and will be moderated by CBC's Debra Arbec and CTV's Mutsumi Takahashi, and hosted by Global's Jamie Orchard.

The debate begins at 5:30 p.m. on CBC Television's main network andCBC Radio One in Quebec.

You can also stream the debatelive on the CBC Montreal website as well as on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.

Journalists from major English-language media outlets will fact-checkthe leaders' statements in real time during the event.

The leaders of all four parties with seats in the National Assembly will take part in the 90-minute debate.

They are:

• Liberal Party Leader Philippe Couillard.
• Coalition Avenir Qubec Leader Franois Legault.
• Parti Qubcois Leader Jean-Franois Lise.
• Qubec Solidaire co-spokesperson Manon Mass.

A consortium of English-language media in Quebec including CBC, CTV, Global, CJAD and the Montreal Gazette made a formal request in April to the four parties with MNAscurrently sitting in the National Assembly to hold the debate.

This will be the second English-language leaders' debate in Quebec history. The first was a radio-only matchupin 1985 between Liberal leader Robert Bourassa and PQ leader Pierre-Marc Johnson.