Liberal MPs Battiste and Kelloway spar over nomination for same Nova Scotia seat

Liberal MPs Jaime Battiste and Mike Kelloway both want to run in the newly rejigged and renamed riding of Sydney-Glace Bay. The Liberal Party is declining to say how they will settle this dispute.

Liberal MPs Jaime Battiste, left, says he is the incumbent for the newly-formed Sydney-Glace Bay, N.S., riding given it contains much of his current riding, while Mike Kelloway says the new electoral boundaries mean there are no incumbents.The Hill Times photograph by Stuart Benson, photograph courtesy of X

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BY ABBAS RANA

February 8, 2025

A war of words is raging between Nova Scotia Liberal MPs Mike Kelloway and Jaime Battiste over who should be the party’s candidate in the newly rejigged and renamed riding of Sydney-Glace Bay.

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