Tourism minister won’t seek re-election, vies for Montreal municipal party leadership

Tourism Minister Soraya Martinez-Ferrada has resigned from furniture and arsenic the Liberal enactment nationalist run co-chair.

Martinez-Ferrada shared her resignation missive to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau connected societal media, which says she intends to tally to go politician of Montreal.

“This was not an casual decision, but it is 1 that I cognize is right, successful which I volition proceed to combat for progressive values,” Martinez-Ferrada wrote successful her resignation letter.

“The tendency to service the metropolis that welcomed the young exile from Chile, to service the metropolis that gave maine my commencement successful politics, is 1 that is excessively important for maine to ignore.”

She posted a video connected societal media Thursday announcing her candidacy to pb the municipal enactment Ensemble Montreal.

Ensemble Montreal members volition prime their caller person connected April 6, who volition correspond the enactment arsenic its mayoral campaigner successful the city’s November election.

Mayor Valérie Plante is not seeking re-election.

Martinez-Ferrada was 1 of the Liberal’s nationalist run co-chairs, alongside Prairies Economic Development Minister Terry Duguid.

Parker Lund, Liberal enactment spokesperson, said that Duguid volition proceed to enactment intimately with nationalist run manager Andrew Bevan and his lawman Marjorie Michel up of the adjacent election.

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He added determination is “no quality to stock arsenic of now” erstwhile it comes to naming a caller co-chair.

While the adjacent national predetermination is not scheduled to instrumentality spot until the fall, determination is simply a beardown likelihood Canadians spell to the polls earlier with each 3 main absorption parties saying they program to bring down the number Liberal authorities astatine the earliest opportunity.

The House of Commons is acceptable to reconvene  on March 24, and assurance votes are expected to rapidly travel with MPs needing to ballot connected the throne code and authorities backing soon after.