Global National: Sept. 9

The federal party leaders square off in the only English-language debate of this election, but the pressure is on Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau to explain his decision to call an election during the pandemic. Elective surgeries are being cancelled in Alberta. Who that’s impacting, and what the province is doing to take pressure off the health care system. Plus, the desperate need for cradle-to-grave health care in rural Canada, and one doctor’s dedication to a small town in Nova Scotia. Dawna Friesen is on the road in that province, in the village of Baddeck, as Global National crosses the country in the countdown to the federal election.