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| Last Edited | User 13 Jan 03, 2004 10:35pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, January 3, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Another fiery battle has broken out between two high-profile Liberal MPs over a single Ontario riding after Prime Minister Paul Martin declared he won't protect incumbents from being challenged — even by each other.
Mississauga West MP Steve Mahoney, a former Jean Chrétien cabinet minister, says he wants to run in the same riding as Mississauga East MP Carolyn Parrish, a firebrand Martin supporter.
Both Mahoney's and Parrish's ridings are being redrawn by Elections Canada for the next election, expected in the spring, due to redistribution. In the process, much of Mahoney's riding will become Mississauga-Streetsville, and Parrish's riding will be largely Mississauga-Erindale.
Mahoney says 60 per cent of his old riding is in the new Mississauga-Erindale riding, and says he won't run anywhere else.
In an interview this week, he said Parrish has "embarrassed" the Liberal party.
Last February, Parrish created a stir when she was overheard saying: "Damn Americans, I hate those bastards."
This week, Parrish said Mahoney won't get far by dwelling on her past comments, since many people in her riding wouldn't be offended by her position.
Parrish, in turn, accused Mahoney of "side-swiping" her and of being afraid to run in an adjoining riding against newcomer Wajid Khan.
Khan, a Toronto-area car dealer seeking the Liberal nomination in the new Mississauga-Streetsville riding, delivered more than 1,000 delegate votes to Martin's team during the party leadership race this year. |
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