Free Liberal memberships attract thousands of new members ahead of hotly-contested Ottawa-Vanier nomination

All 10 candidates for the Liberal nomination in Ottawa-Vanier are finalizing strategies to bring out as many of about 7,500 registered party members as possible on nomination day.

All 10 candidates seeking Liberal nomination in Ottawa-Vanier, top to bottom, left to right: Khatera Akbari, Mona Fortier, Nicolas Moyer, Ainsley Malhotra, Véronique Soucy, Francis LeBlanc, Eric Khaiat, Jean Claude Dubuisson, Abdourahman Kahin and Persévérance Mayer. Photographs courtesy of candidates

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BY ABBAS RANA

January 30, 2017

With the incentive of free party membership, Liberal Party membership in the riding of Ottawa-Vanier, Ont., has grown eight times over in anticipation of a nomination meeting there, and the 10 candidates running in this safe Liberal riding are focused on getting as many of these members out as pos...

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