Rural Liberal candidates who lost last election eager to start nominations for 2019 federal run

Rural Liberal candidates say they want to get a full summer and fall of campaigning in before 2019 federal election.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pictured on June 27 leaving the National Press Theatre in Ottawa after holding an end-of-House-sitting press conference. Past candidates want the Liberals to start nominating candidates in rural ridings as soon as possible.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY ABBAS RANA

July 3, 2017

The Liberals, who hold 183 seats in the Commons, should start nominations in unheld rural ridings as soon as possible to give the eventual candidates enough time to start campaigning for the 2019 federal election, say Liberal candidates who lost in these ridings in the last election. “They should...

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