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Liberals paint target on Thomas Mulcair’s Montreal riding
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Oct 17, 2015 03:16pm |
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| Author | Allan Woods |
| News Date | Friday, October 16, 2015 09:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | MONTREAL—The ultimate political indignity a party leader can face is to run a criss-cross campaign around the country only to be defeated in his or her home riding.
It happened to Liberal chief Michael Ignatieff and Bloc Québécois boss Gilles Duceppe in the last federal election in 2011. This time around Justin Trudeau is attempting to ensure Thomas Mulcair of the New Democratic Party suffers the same fate in the Montreal riding of Outremont.
To that end, the man leading the Liberal forces dropped in at a campaign event Thursday evening to boost his local candidate, Rachel Bendayan.
“What’s happening in Outremont is a real groundswell. I’m feeling the momentum,” said Bendayan, a lawyer who says voters are telling her that they want a change from Mulcair, even if the NDP leader himself is campaigning on that same theme.
“This riding happens to be one of the youngest ridings in Canada. I feel like I really represent them, not only their generation, but also their interests and their concerns,” the 35-year-old said during a break in afternoon campaigning outside a Starbucks on Montreal’s Park Avenue.
There are no set rules outlawing the practice, but bringing the national campaign and the flocks of journalists who follow it into Mulcair’s riding when he isn’t there to defend himself is perceived to be one of the few no-noes that remain in Canadian politics. Mulcair himself didn’t seem troubled by it.
“It’s a free country. People can do what they want,” he said at a campaign event in Alma, Que., adding that he had already won three times in what was once considered a Liberal party fortress. |
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