In Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount campaign, Liberal Anna Gainey will seek to succeed former Secretary of State Marc Garneau, who announced his resignation in March after 15 years in politics.

The director of the Gainey Foundation, who was once President of the Liberal Party, will notably face New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate Jean-François Fillion, an English teacher.

Mathew Kaminski will represent the Conservative Party of Canada. This man was an accountant at the Maple’s Group law firm.

The Bloc Québécois has nominated Laurence Massey, 25, as its nominee. She is studying Native Studies at the university. The deputy leader of the Greens, Jonathan Pedneault, is also running.

Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount is a Liberal stronghold. In the 2021 election, Marc Garneau won a majority of 15,757 votes ahead of new Democrat Emma Elbourne-Weinstock.

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The place where the fight is expected to be the toughest is Winnipeg South Centre.

Liberal Ben Carr will seek to succeed his father, former Secretary of State Jim Carr, who died in December 2022.

The Conservative Party is represented by Damir Stipanovic, who previously worked for the Canadian Armed Forces and for Nav Canada, an air traffic control service provider.

Instead, the psychologist Julia Riddell is a candidate for the NDP in the election campaign and advocates electoral law reform. In the last federal election, only 76% of registered Canadians said they voted. A lot of people have told me they feel like their vote doesn’t count because of the first-past-the-post system. It is time to reform the electoral system to achieve proportional representationshe wrote in English in a post on Twitter on Saturday morning.

In 2021, Jim Carr was re-elected with 45.55% of the votes cast. He had beaten his conservative opponent by more than 8,600 votes.

Return of Maxime Bernier in Portage-Lisgar

In Portage-Lisgar, Manitoba, MP Candice Bergen, the former interim leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, resigned from office last February. Branden Leslie, who grew up on a family farm, will try to keep that seat for the Conservatives.

Kerry Smith, executive director of the Manitoba Metis Federation, is running for the Liberal Party.

The leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), Maxime Bernier, is aiming for the nomination in the same spirit. He claimed so in a Twitter post on Saturday It is important that another party like the PPC offers a populist-conservative alternative, based on clear principles, and says if the conservatives don’t win, it’s not because of “divided votes” but because they are weak , complacent and unprincipled leaders.

In the 2021 election, PPC candidate Solomon Wiebe had done well by finishing second to Ms Bergen with 14,029 votes.

Lisa Tessier-Burch, an educator, represents the NDP in this area.

The Conservatives should also retain fourth place, which will see a by-election held on Monday. The seat there was held by Dave MacKenzie, who won a majority of more than 14,000 votes in 2021. Arpan Khanna is the candidate who will try to keep that seat in the party’s hands.

David Hilderley, a retired teacher and school principal, is running for the Liberal Party. Cody Groat, an assistant professor in the Department of History and Native Studies at Western University in Ontario, will represent the NDP.

Another part in July

Another by-election will be held in Calgary Heritage District, Alberta, on July 23, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in a press release on Sunday.

The goal of the exercise is to replace Conservative MP Bob Benzen, who announced his retirement from political life last October.

Calgary Heritage is the race run by former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper until 2016. By 2021, Mr. Benzen had won overwhelmingly.