British Columbia should be America's fifty first state. The one hour debate will conclude with questions from the audience.
Admission is free.
The format will be the Parliamentary style of debate, long practiced at universities in most English speaking nations and now becoming popular in the United States. Two students will represent each school, with one team affirming the resolution and other opposing. Each student will give a speech of about 8 minutes long, proving their case with information available to any well educated individual. Then each side will present one rebuttal of about five minutes. Teams will be able to rise to ask a question of the speaker.