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OTTAWA (Reuters) – The leader of Canada\u2019s main opposition Conservative Party squares off against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a televised debate on Thursday that could go a long way in deciding who wins a Sept. 20 election.<\/p>\n

Erin O\u2019Toole took over his right-leaning party last year during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and insiders concede he has had trouble introducing himself to voters.<\/p>\n

But polls show he is ahead of the Liberals amid voter unhappiness with Trudeau\u2019s decision to call an election two years early and he will have a chance to solidify his position in the third of three two-hour debates between party leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is really, really important to both of them … they screw this up, they lose the election,\u201d said Frank Graves, president of the Ekos Research polling company.<\/p>\n

The debate is the only one in English, the language spoken by two-thirds of Canada\u2019s 38 million people. Trudeau says he needs a vote now to judge whether Canadians back his decision to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to fight the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is perhaps the single most important two hours of O\u2019Toole\u2019s political life … there are a lot of open minds out there so things could shift quickly either way,\u201d said a Conservative strategist who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.<\/p>\n

Trudeau, who has been in office for six years, lashed out at O\u2019Toole during a French-language debate on Wednesday, accusing him of favouring restrictions on abortion and wanting to loosen gun controls.<\/p>\n

The debate format – which groups five party leaders on one stage – can sometimes lead to participants talking over one another and the results are not always decisive.<\/p>\n

But Trudeau, who took power in late 2015, benefited from major stumbles by opponents during debate in both the 2015 and 2019 campaigns, which he won. The session starts at 9 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday (0100 GMT on Friday).<\/p>\n

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