Several candidates competing for replacing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau say they presented their documentation and overcome the first financial obstacle to enter the race, although they could still spend a few days to see who spent the cut.
The candidates Karina Gould, Chrystia Freeland, Mark Carney, Jaime Battiste, Arya Chandra, Frank Baylis and Ruby Dhalla said they sent their nomination packages.
The leadership race takes place in an extraordinarily adjusted schedule after the announcement of Trudeau’s resignation earlier this month and the anticipated spring elections.
According to the rules established by the party, the candidates had until 5 PM ET on Thursday to present a nomination package that included the signatures of 300 registered liberals (including at least 100 of three different provinces or territories) and a reimbursable deposit of 50,000 dollars
It is a fraction of the total registration rate of $ 350,000. Payments will be distributed in four installments between January 23 and February 17.
As the race advances towards the vote on March 9, the policies of the candidates are filtering. But no one has delineated its full platform.
When Kate McKenna, from CBC, asked him if being prime minister can be an initial level work, the liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney says that he has had many works in which “he reached the top”, but that he concentrates In having a strong team.
On Thursday, Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada, published a campaign video pointing to the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. The opposition party has criticized Carney for years and has intensified his attacks since he assumed his leadership last week, suggesting that he is a liberal member that favors unpopular and expensive policies.
“You can’t face Trump when you’re working according to his manual,” said Carney in the video.
“[Poilievre] He has been political all his life and in all that time he has not fixed anything. He simply complains. “
A source from the Carney Campaign said he will meet privately on Thursday with parliamentarians while they meet in Ottawa for a Caucus meeting. The source, which was not authorized to speak publicly, said that Carney has focused on reaching base organizers throughout the country and making rapid calls one to two minutes with liberals.
Carney spoke with journalists in the center of Ottawa on Thursday on the way to an event, flanked by a handful of liberal cabinet ministers.
“We can direct this economy as a team,” he said. “It’s not just about me.”
On the way to a meeting of the Liberal Group in Ottawa on Thursday, the parliamentarian of Toronto, Chrystia Freeland, says that his approach while he is running to be the next leader of the party is to revive his bases and make his processes more democratic.
On Thursday, former Finance Minister Freeland promised to restructure the constitution of the party and develop a process for leadership revisions, a blow to Trudeau. The prime minister faced growing calls from the group to resign last year, but they ran out of a mechanism to force him to resign.
“For me, a great emphasis will be to revive the party, revive the bases of the party, relive a true process of democratization of the party,” he told his way to a Caucus meeting in Parliament Hill.
“We can never be in a position in which the leader is the only person who decides who is the leader. And I think the base members and the group of the Liberal Party must have more voice in what we do and how we do it,” .
A campaign source said Wednesday that Freeland would eliminate changes to capital gains tax that he introduced as finance minister.
It is the second key liberal policy from which Freeland has moved away in his attempt to become the next liberal leader and Prime Minister. Freeland would also eliminate carbon consumption tax if he wins.
Carney seems to have cooled with respect to the climatic policy of the liberals, but it has been less clear about their plans.
During his leadership speech last week, he said that if the price of carbon will go down, it has to be replaced “for something that is at least, if not more, effective.”
The party still has to approve candidates
Gould, the former leader of the House of Representatives, promised to freeze the price of carbon but not abolish it.
“We have to be honest about the fact that Canadians have lost confidence in our party and partly I don’t think we have answered the issues that told us that they cared,” he said Thursday after presenting their documents. .
At a press conference on Thursday morning, the candidate for liberal leadership, Karina Gould, promised to permanently cut the GST in clothes, diapers, strollers and security seats for children if she was chosen party leader . In December, the Federal Government introduced a two -month GST exemption for certain articles.
He suggested to journalists that the GST holiday of the Government in clothing, diapers, strollers and children’s seats would make permanent. These articles, and other goods and services, including beer, wine and meals in restaurants, are exempt from the GST until February 15.
He also said that his government did not “correct” the increase in capital gains.
A source of his campaign team said that since he launched his candidacy on the weekend, he has been contacting young liberals and working to register new members.
Jaime Battiste officially announces that he is running to become the next leader of the Liberal Party replacing Justin Trudeau. Battiste is the first indigenous candidate to compete for the position of Prime Minister of Canada.
Battiste also held a press conference on Thursday he announced that he had presented his documents “to be the first indigenous person to run for Prime Minister of Canada.”
“I think we have pending issues for shared dreams in our country,” he said while encouraging indigenous young people to register to vote in the liberal race.
Dhalla, a former liberal deputy who won three consecutive elections in Brampton, Ontario, announced on Thursday the X day that would apply for leadership.
Dhalla told Power & Politics of CBC News Network that he decided to join due to his frustrations because of the way the Low Trudeau game was held.
“I think I share the anger and frustrations of thousands of liberals throughout the country, because today’s liberal party is no longer the liberal party as we knew it,” he told the presenter David Cochrane. Dhalla lost his seat in 2011 and since then has worked in the private sector. She appeared as the candidate who has more distance from Trudeau.
“I am the only one who has not been affiliated with the current administration. I am a new face and I have new ideas and a new vision,” he said.
People can register in the party to vote in the race for leadership until Monday.
Parker Lund, spokesman for the Liberal Party, says that the party will approve the candidates “within 10 days.” Canada elections will also need to approve them, he said, which could take several days.
Lund said the party will only confirm official candidates once they have been approved in their entirety.
The registered liberals will vote in 343 electoral districts, and each district will have a weight of 100 points.
