Liberal MP Désirée McGraw, in Quebec, took up her pen to invite her supporters to support Anna Gainey as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount, at the federal level.
Mme McGraw also confides that he took back his PLC membership card for the first time in eight years. In 2014, she had considered running for the PLC nomination in the new riding of Ville-Marie against a personal friend of Mr. Trudeau, Marc Miller.
In an email sent from her personal address, the member for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce explains to her supporters why she will vote for the daughter of the former managing director of the Canadiens in the nomination to find a replacement for the former -Minister of Foreign Affairs Marc Garneau.
“If you want to have a say in who will represent our community in Ottawa, I encourage you and your family to do the same,” she wrote.
The two women have been friends for more than 20 years, explains Désirée McGraw in her email.
According The PressMme Gainey is “very close” to Justin Trudeau. She and her spouse are said to have accompanied the prime minister and his family on the controversial trip to the Aga Khan’s private island at the start of his term.
Several PLC supporters
Of course, nothing prevents a provincial elected official from being a member of a federal party or from supporting a candidate in Ottawa. But the links with the PLC have recently put the PLQ in the embarrassment.
In the last federal election, MP André Fortin advised Liberal leader Justin Trudeau for the leaders’ debate. The member for Pontiac had notably given him his perspective on Quebec politics.
This revelation had placed its leader at the time in a delicate position, while Dominique Anglade denounced attempts at federal interference in Quebec’s fields of jurisdiction.
Prime Minister François Legault had also taken the opportunity to portray the PLQ as a “branch” of Ottawa.
Other Liberals in Quebec also have affinities with Mr. Trudeau’s party.
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MP Marwah Rizqy sought the nomination of the PLC, while Frédéric Beauchemin wore the colors in the 2019 elections.
Madwa-Nika Cadet worked for Federal Minister François-Philippe Champagne, while Brigitte Garceau was the French-speaking national vice-president of the PLC from 2009 to 2012.
With the collaboration of Raphaël Pirro