Macpherson: A debate in English, a trap for Legault

It’s understandable if Quebec anglophones were excited that leaders of the four parties in the National Assembly agreed in principle this week to a televised debate in English during the campaign for the Oct. 1 general election.
It would be only the second leaders’ debate in English in a Quebec election campaign ever, and the first on television. There was one on radio in 1985 (in which the leader of a short-lived, fringe, pro-independence party was included on the order of the chief