Guilbeault joins federal Liberals
Noted environmentalist Steven Guilbeault will be running for the federal Liberals this fall in Laurier-Sainte-Marie. Presumably the party thinks this is candidate to wrest the riding back from the NDP‘s Hélène Laverdière, who displaced Gilles Duceppe in 2011 and hung on in 2015 despite a new challenge from Duceppe.
thomas 09:54 on 2019-06-22 Permalink
Hélène Laverdière already announced she will not be a candidate in the next election.
Kate 10:54 on 2019-06-22 Permalink
Thanks for the update, thomas. I’m planning to gather together a file on Montreal federal ridings, so that’s useful to know. Not too many new candidates have been named yet, though.
thomas 16:43 on 2019-06-22 Permalink
FYI the NDP candidate in Laurier-Sainte-Marie is Nima Machouf (wife of Amir Khadir)
JaneyB 22:17 on 2019-06-23 Permalink
That’s good news. Maybe he’ll be able to get some real fire into the Liberals’ environmental policy, provided they get in. I think their heart is in the right place but the pipeline problem and Harper’s petro-state economic legacy have us in quite a tight and tricky place.