Intro

<p>As the federal election reaches the homestretch, four party leaders squared off in Montreal Thursday evening in the only English-language debate of the campaign. Liberal leader and polling frontrunner Mark Carney took heat from all sides as the Conservatives' Pierre Poilievre, the NDP's Jagmeet Singh and the Bloc's Yves-François Blanchet kept the barbs coming his way all night.</p><p><br></p><p>Aaron Wherry is a senior writer with CBC's Ottawa bureau. He breaks down how everyone performed and what we learned from them — as well as the controversy surrounding the debate commission itself, and the drama that led to post-debate reporter scrums being canceled.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Make sure to watch our election night livestream on Monday, April 28 starting at 8pm Eastern. You can find it </strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYxMOdfYba0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>here on the CBC News YouTube channel</strong></a><strong> and on the CBC News TikTok.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong></strong></p>