Federal Liberals announce dates for 2 leadership debates

The Liberal Party of Canada has announced 2 enactment debates — 1 successful English and 1 successful French — to beryllium held successful Montreal aboriginal this month, up of the ballot to find their adjacent person and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s successor.

On Saturday, the enactment announced the French statement volition instrumentality spot connected Feb. 24, and the English statement the pursuing day.

The debates autumn little than 2 weeks earlier the March 9 vote to unafraid the Liberal Party’s caller leader.

“This is simply a clip for Liberals crossed the state to speech ideas and prosecute successful thoughtful statement to signifier the aboriginal of our enactment and our state – and I promote each Liberals to get involved successful this breathtaking infinitesimal for our party, Sachit Mehra, President of the Liberal Party of Canada, said successful a connection announcing the ballot successful aboriginal January.

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The run teams for the remaining Liberal enactment contestants each confirmed Friday they person cleared a large fundraising hurdle, allowing them to stay successful the race.

The campaigns said they person each paid the enactment $125,000 that was owed Friday — portion of an instalment program to negociate a hefty full introduction interest of $350,000.

The candidates volition person to travel up with a last outgo of $125,000 by Feb. 17.

The Liberal enactment is looking to regenerate Trudeau successful grounds time. Trudeau announced Jan. 6 that helium would step down arsenic soon arsenic a caller person was elected, and prorogued Parliament until March 24. The enactment aboriginal announced it would elite its adjacent person connected March 9.

The contestants for enactment person are erstwhile Liberal House person Karina Gould, erstwhile Liberal MP Frank Baylis, erstwhile Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla, erstwhile cardinal slope politician Mark Carney and erstwhile lawman premier curate Chrystia Freeland.

The enactment reported a week agone that astir 400,000 supporters registered arsenic members to ballot successful the enactment contention earlier the deadline.

— With files from The Canadian Press