Jody Wilson-Raybould ready to run for re-election as federal Liberal GlobePolitics
Walter Wells, a realtor who volunteers at the Vancouver Odd Fellows organization based in Jody Wilson-Raybould's riding, is seen at his home in Vancouver, B.C., on Mar. 8, 2019.Walter Wells voted Liberal in 2015 and doesn’t think he’ll do that again this year. But he says he will be volunteering to work on Jody Wilson-Raybould’s expected re-election campaign.
Despite being at the centre of the worst crisis of the government’s mandate, Ms. Wilson-Raybould says she remains committed to the party. She has said that she plans to seek re-election in the riding she first won in the 2015 election with 44 per cent of the vote. Her NDP and Conservative rivals came in at about 26 per cent each in the riding, created by redistribution in 2012.
On Friday, Mr. Trudeau told a news conference in Iqaluit that both Ms. Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott, who quit as president of Treasury Board over the government’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin file, share the governments’ values and objectives on economic growth, reconciliation, the environment and “a broad range of things.”Vancouver Granville was created in 2012 as part of a riding redistribution. It’s a 23-square-kilometre riding that is home to about 100,000 people.
"If you’re asking whether or not she is competitive as a Liberal, I think she is,” said Gordie Hogg, chair of the B.C caucus and also the member for South Surrey-White Rock."She’s been a part of the Liberal team, and says she wants to maintain herself as part of the Liberal team. Unless something happens to take that possibility away, I think she’s a very viable and positive candidate, who has a good chance to win.
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