(Montreal) Voters in four ridings will elect their new MP on Monday. By-elections are taking place in the ridings of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount, Quebec, Oxford, Ontario, and Portage–Lisgar and Winnipeg–Centre-Sud, Manitoba.
In the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount riding in Montreal, Liberal Anna Gainey will try to succeed former Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau, who announced he was leaving office in March after 15 years in politics. .
The director of the Gainey Foundation, who was once the president of the Liberal Party, will notably face the candidate of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Jean-François Fillion, an English teacher.
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Justin Trudeau and Anna Gainey, the candidate for the by-elections in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount.
Mathew Kaminski will represent the Conservative Party of Canada. The man was an accountant for the law firm Maple’s Group.
The Bloc Québécois has nominated Laurence Massey, 25, as its candidate. She is a university student in Native Studies. Green Party Deputy Leader Jonathan Pedneault is also running.
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount is a Liberal stronghold. In the 2021 election, Marc Garneau won a majority of 15,757 votes ahead of New Democrat Emma Elbourne-Weinstock.
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The riding where the fight is expected to be the tightest is Winnipeg South Centre.
Liberal Ben Carr will try to succeed his father, former minister Jim Carr, who died in December 2022.
The Conservative Party is represented by Damir Stipanovic, who previously worked for the Canadian Armed Forces and Nav Canada, an air navigation service provider.
Psychologist Julia Riddell is instead a candidate for the NDP in the riding and advocates electoral reform. “In the last federal election, only 76% of registered Canadians said they voted. Many people have told me that they feel like their vote doesn’t count because of the first-past-the-post system. It’s time to reform the electoral system to achieve proportional representation, ”she wrote in a Twitter post on Saturday morning.
In 2021, Jim Carr was re-elected by obtaining 45.55% of the votes cast. He had beaten his conservative opponent by more than 8,600 votes.
Return of Maxime Bernier in Portage-Lisgar
In the riding of Portage-Lisgar, Manitoba, MP Candice Bergen, who was the former interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, left her position last February. Branden Leslie, who was raised on the family farm, will try to keep that seat for the Conservatives.
Kerry Smith, senior director of the Manitoba Metis Federation, is running for the Liberal Party.
The leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), Maxime Bernier, is seeking the nomination in the same riding. He said in a Twitter post on Saturday that it is “important that another party like the PPC offers a conservative populist alternative based on clear principles”, saying that “if the Tories don’t win, it won’t is not because of the “division of the vote”, but because they had weak, complacent and unprincipled leaders”.
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In the 2021 election, PPC candidate Solomon Wiebe had done well, finishing second, 14,029 votes from Mme Bergen.
Lisa Tessier-Burch, an educator, represents the NDP in the sector.
The Conservatives are also expected to keep the fourth constituency where a by-election will be held on Monday. The seat was held by Dave MacKenzie who secured a majority of over 14,000 votes in 2021. Arpan Khanna is the candidate who will try to keep the seat in the hands of the party.
David Hilderley, a retired teacher and school principal, is running for the Liberal Party. Cody Groat, an assistant professor in the department of history and native studies at Western University in Ontario, will defend the colors of the NDP.
Another partial in July
Another by-election will be held on July 23 in the riding of Calgary Heritage, Alta., Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in a news release on Sunday.
The exercise aims to replace Conservative MP Bob Benzen, who announced his departure from political life in October.
Calgary Heritage is the riding that former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper held until 2016. By 2021, Mr. Benzen had won by an overwhelming majority.