Montreal-area MP Marc Garneau quit last week, citing a huge disparity in support for Trudeau and the seven other candidates in the race that concludes April 14.
“Marc speaks for Marc,” the former Toronto-area MP told The Spectator in a weekend interview. “This is politics. Anything can happen in politics.”
She won’t acknowledge Trudeau has a lead partly because she says that is disrespectful “to the other candidates, not just me, who are working hard.” She also says, however, the 150,000 mentioned as supporting Trudeau is a lot of “hoopla” because only 30,000 have registered to vote for him. The party has extended the deadline to register by one week until March 21.
“I’m not going to give you my number, but I will tell you that in our campaign, 90 per cent of the supporters we have signed up have emails — which you need to register them as registered voters — and 70 per cent registered before the deadline.
“It is the people who have registered in this who will be deciding who the leader of the Liberal party will be.”
Hall Findlay, who ran for the leadership in 2006 and came last, stopped at Hutch’s in Hamilton Saturday between engagements in Mississauga and Grimsby.
Hutch’s got her vote. “The fish and chips here are really good,” said Hall Findlay, 53, a divorced mother of three.
One of the people she hoped to meet in Grimsby was Andrew Goodridge, president of the Niagara West-Glanbrook federal Liberal Riding Association. He had been a supporter of Garneau, one of the few in Hamilton. Local Liberals appear to be overwhelmingly with Trudeau.
Hall Findlay, who said the leadership race was “better” with Garneau in it, said his supporters “are flocking to our campaign” across the country. “It’s terrific for us,” she said. “We’re more than happy to have them on board.”
Hall Findlay insists she is in the race until the end, but if the so-called shoo-in does win, she says she can work with Trudeau. She said he has no hard feelings toward comments she made in a debate that implied he was wealthy and was different from the middle class.
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Source: thespec.com
Author: Daniel Nolan
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