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RSS FeedsWill the Liberals try to beat NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in B.C. byelection?
(The Star Travel)

 
 

19 october 2018 01:40:14

 
Will the Liberals try to beat NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in B.C. byelection?
(The Star Travel)
 


OTTAWA—The Liberal candidate who narrowly lost the B.C. riding of Burnaby South in the last federal election says his party should buck the perceived “leader’s courtesy” and nominate a contender to take down NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in an upcoming byelection. Adam Pankratz, a business professor at the University of British Columbia, said he would relish the chance run against Singh and may seek the Liberal nomination himself if the party decides to name a candidate. “If you have a chance to beat up on a federal leader, then you do it,” said Pankratz, who sits on the local Liberal party riding association. “You want the representative to be a Liberal, and we can win this riding, so why wouldn’t we do it?” Pankratz said. “I don’t think it’s any secret that Jagmeet Singh is pretty widely considered a weak federal leader.”Burnaby South has been vacant since Sept. 14, when NDP MP Kennedy Stewart resigned the seat to run for Vancouver mayor. Singh, a former lawyer who began his political as a provincial MPP for Brampton and has never held a federal seat, had already heralded his plan to run there, ending months of questioning about when and where he would try to get a seat in the House of Commons.Read more:Veteran NDP MP says resignation of Jagmeet Singh’s chief of staff is the ‘beginning of a big reset’Jagmeet Singh puts on brave face ahead of 2019 electionOpinion | Chantal Hébert: As the NDP’s fortunes slide, Singh battles to stay on topBy law, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has 180 days after Stewart’s resignation to schedule a byelection in Burnaby South — meaning he must say when the contest will be held by March 13. Meanwhile, the Liberals have been repeatedly asked whether they will respect the “leader’s courtesy,” a sportsmanship convention that has been followed by some parties in the past when opposing leaders have sought se ...


 
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