Liberal officials threaten to dismiss Brome-Missisquoi riding association execs if they don’t stop demanding Paradis run in open nomination

Brome-Missisquoi incumbent Liberal MP Denis Paradis, who has been confirmed as the party candidate for 2019, says the current and former riding association presidents are trying to push him out.

Five-term Liberal MP and former cabinet minister Denis Paradis, now the chair of the House Languages Committee, says Stéphane Beaulac, the former riding association president, is trying to push him out to be the party's candidate in 2019.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY ABBAS RANA

October 22, 2018

Three federal Quebec Liberals officials are threatening to dismiss the Liberal riding association's executive in Brome-Missisquoi, Que., if they don't stop demanding that incumbent Liberal MP Denis Paradis, who's already been nominated, face an open nomination contest for the 2019 election, say the ...

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