Crime, energy and geopolitics define the leaders key exchanges in English debate Winnipeg Free Press [Video]

OTTAWA – Federal party leaders laid out some of their electoral priorities and took each other to task on policy during the English-language debate Thursday.

These were some of the key exchanges:

Pipeline griping

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre repeatedly attacked the Liberals for not getting pipelines built — but kept getting interrupted by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.

“It sounds wild when you say that,” Singh said at one point.

“They built a pipeline. I don’t know what Pierre is complaining about,” he said later.

Singh also cut off Poilievre when he said energy projects “should have strong rules, enforced once” instead of multiple reviews. “It’s the first time I’ve heard you care about the environment,” Singh said.

That remark had Liberal Leader Mark Carney chuckling.

While the debate included “energy and climate” among its five themes, environmental concerns were largely raised by Singh and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet.

Trudeau’s legacy

Poilievre repeatedly attempted to link Carney closely with his predecessor’s legacy.

“Justin Trudeau’s staffers are actually …