Three white men did what three white men stereotypically do. They didn't talk about issues that white men are not immediately or personally concerned with. This is not to say that Craig Oliver, Keith Boag and David Vienneau did not do an extremely professional job in the English leaders' TV debate last week. But was there no way to slip in a question about immigration, refugee policy, aboriginal self-government, urban aboriginal issues, immigrant women's poverty, racial profiling, employment equity, human rights commissions or recognition of foreign credentials? The French debate was no different, although Paul Martin did manage to slip aboriginal issues in at the end.

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