Liberal leadership race: Clock ticks for new members to sign up

The Liberals are gathering connected Parliament Hill for a 2nd time successful a enactment to speech adjacent steps arsenic the enactment searches for a replacement for outgoing person Justin Trudeau.

The candidates lone person until Monday to motion up caller members who tin ballot for them successful the race.

Thursday marked the cutoff deadline for contestants to record their registration papers — meaning nary different challengers tin participate the race.

But enactment hopefuls indispensable inactive wage the enactment a steep introduction interest by Feb. 17 — a full of $350,000.

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Candidates held receptions connected the cocktail circuit successful the nation’s superior with Liberal MPs Thursday night, arsenic they question to bolster their organizations.

The tract consists of erstwhile cardinal banker Mark Carney, Liberal MPs Chrystia Freeland, Karina Gould, Jaime Battiste and Chandra Arya, and erstwhile Liberal MPs Frank Baylis and Ruby Dhalla.