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Date | April 14, 2013 |
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Convention | Westin Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario |
Resigning leader | Michael Ignatieff |
Won by | Justin Trudeau |
Ballots | 1 |
Candidates | 6 |
Entrance Fee | $75,000 CDN |
Spending limit | $950,000 CDN |
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Prime Minister of Canada Leader of the Liberal Party Member of Parliament
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An election for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada was triggered by Michael Ignatieff's announcement on May 3, 2011, of his intention to resign as leader following the party's defeat in the 2011 federal election. On May 25, 2011, Bob Rae was appointed by Liberal caucus as interim leader. The party announced Justin Trudeau as its new leader on April 14, 2013, in Ottawa, Ontario. [1] [2]
The Liberal Party of Canada is the oldest and longest-serving governing political party in Canada. The Liberals form the current government, elected in 2015. The party has dominated federal politics for much of Canada's history, holding power for almost 69 years in the 20th century—more than any other party in a developed country—and as a result, it is sometimes referred to as Canada's "natural governing party".
Michael Grant Ignatieff is a Canadian author, academic and former politician. He was the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has held senior academic posts at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Toronto.
Michael Ignatieff declared on May 3, 2011, that he intended to resign as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, but his statement was worded so as not to be an actual resignation to avoid immediately triggering a leadership vote under party rules; he tendered a letter of resignation to the party's National Board of Directors on May 11. [3] [4] Under the provisions of the party's constitution, the Board was required to set a date for a leadership vote to be held within five months thereafter. [5] However several MPs expressed their reluctance to hold a third leadership election in eight years and instead wanted to take the four years of electoral stability provided by a majority parliament as an opportunity to rebuild under an interim leader for as much as two years before selecting a permanent leader.
The first three leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada were not chosen at a leadership convention. Alexander Mackenzie and Edward Blake were chosen by the party caucus. Wilfrid Laurier was also chosen by caucus members with the party convention of 1893 ratifying his leadership. The most recent leadership election was held in 2013.
The Board met as required on May 19 and set the election for October 28 and 29, 2011, but adopted a proposed constitutional amendment allowing this leadership election to be held between March 1 and June 30, 2013, with the exact date to be announced no sooner than five months in advance. [6] The next convention of the party adopted the amendment on June 18, 2011. [7] On June 13, 2012, the Board decided to call the leadership vote for April 2013 with a specific date to be confirmed during the summer. [8] The Board subsequently established April 14, 2013, as the date the leadership election winner is to be announced and November 14, 2012, as the official start of the race. It also set a spending limit of $950,000 and a debt limit of $75,000, both considerably lower figures than allowed in 2006. [1]
In the case of a vacancy in the leadership, the Board is required to meet to appoint an interim leader "in consultation" with the parliamentary caucus, i.e., its 34 MPs and 46 senators. [5] Before this meeting, the Board determined it would not consider anyone unless that person has the support of a majority of MPs and of the caucus as a whole, was bilingual, and promised in writing not to seek the permanent leadership and not to discuss or negotiate significant changes to the party, which would include a merger with the New Democratic Party (NDP). This was taken as intended to exclude Bob Rae a potential leadership candidate who had significant support among Liberal senators and had talked about a merger shortly after the general election loss, as well as Deputy Leader Ralph Goodale, who is not bilingual, and any other MP who may intend to run in the leadership campaign. [9] [10] Nonetheless, after the caucus discussed the interim leadership on May 11, 2011, it met again on May 25 and voted to recommend Rae as interim leader over Marc Garneau; the Board subsequently confirmed the appointment. [11] [12] [13]
Robert Keith Rae, is a Canadian lawyer, negotiator, public speaker, and former politician. He was the member of Parliament for Toronto Centre and was the interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2011 to 2013. He was previously leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party and the 21st Premier of Ontario, from 1990 until 1995. Between 1978 and 2013, he was elected 11 times to federal and provincial parliaments.
Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau, is a Canadian politician and the Minister of Transport in the Government of Canada. He is a retired military officer, former astronaut, and engineer; Garneau was the first Canadian in space, taking part in three flights aboard NASA Space Shuttles in 1984, 1996 and 2000. Garneau was the president of the Canadian Space Agency from 2001 to 2006, and in 2003 was installed as the ninth Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.
In June 2012, the Board was expected to release Rae from his promise and allow him to run for the party leadership provided he stepped down as interim leader when Parliament rose for the summer. [14] However, Rae announced on June 13, 2012, that he would not be running for the permanent leadership and remained interim leader until Trudeau was announced as the new leader April 14, 2013. [15]
130,774 Liberal Party members and supporters registered to vote in the election [16] of almost 300,000 who were eligible. [17] General voting took place from April 7 to April 14, 2013, by preferential ballot online and by phone. Each electoral district was allocated 100 points with points in a district allocated in proportion to each candidate by the number of first preference votes received. All points were then aggregated nationally for a "national count". If no candidate received 15,401 points on the first count, then the candidate with the least number of points would be eliminated and his/her votes are distributed in each electoral district among the remaining leadership contestants according to the next preference indicated. This process would then continue until one candidate has more than 15,401 points. [18] Trudeau was selected on the first ballot.
Candidates who appeared on the ballot.
Martin Cauchon, 49, was the former member of Parliament for the riding of Outremont in Montreal, Quebec. He served as an MP from 1993 to 2004 and served in the cabinet of Jean Chrétien, his most prominent post was as Minister of Justice. Cauchon was the Liberal candidate in Outremont in the 2011 federal election but was defeated by the New Democrat Thomas Mulcair.
Deborah Coyne, 58, was a Toronto lawyer, professor and author who ran for the Liberals in the riding of Toronto—Danforth in the 2006 federal election. She worked in the Prime Minister's Office in the 1980s and between 1989 and 1991 she was constitutional adviser to Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells.
Hall Findlay, 53, was the former MP for Willowdale, Ontario (2008–2011)
Candidate for the Liberal leadership in 2006
Official Opposition Critic Transport, Infrastructure and Communities (2008–2009)
Official Opposition Critic for Public Works (2009–2010)
Official Opposition Critic for International Trade (2010–2011)
McCrimmon is a retired Canadian Forces Lieutenant colonel who was the first woman to command a Royal Canadian Air Force squadron (429 Transport Squadron). She was the Liberal candidate in Carleton—Mississippi Mills during the 2011 election. McCrimmon served in the Gulf War, with NATO forces during the Yugoslav Wars, and the War in Afghanistan, and in 1995 was admitted to the Order of Military Merit in the rank of Officer. [44]
Murray, 58, had been the Liberal MP for Vancouver Quadra, British Columbia since 2008 and served as Opposition Critic for Small Business and Tourism, Asia — Pacific Gateway and Western Economic Diversification (2011–present). BC Liberal MLA for New Westminster (2001-2005). BC Minister of Water, Land and Air Protection (2001-2004). BC Minister of Management Services (2004-2005) [45]
Other information
Trudeau, at the age of 41, had been Parliamentarian for Papineau, since 2008, Liberal Post Secondary Education, Youth and Amateur Sport Critic (2011–2015) and son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Trudeau had ruled out a bid but reconsidered in the wake of Bob Rae's announcement that he was not running. [64] [65]
Candidates who filed nomination papers and paid the required installments of their registration fee, [29] but withdrew from the ballot.
Bertschi is an Ottawa lawyer and was the federal Liberal candidate in Ottawa—Orléans during the 2011 election. In 2012, he established an exploratory committee to assess his leadership prospects, and announced his candidacy on November 7, [108] [109] before ending his campaign on March 21, 2013 without endorsing another candidate. [110]
MP for Westmount—Ville-Marie, Quebec (2008–present)
Liberal House Leader (2011–2012)
Retired astronaut
Retired Captain in the Royal Canadian Navy
Former President of the Canadian Space Agency (2001-2005)
Garneau stood for the position of interim leadership but was passed over in favour of Bob Rae. [37]
Garneau withdrew on March 13, 2013 and endorsed Justin Trudeau after concluding that the latter's lead was insurmountable. [113] Garneau had previously suggested that Trudeau lacked substance and was "untested". [114]
Toronto based technology lawyer. Takach declared his candidacy in November 2012, but withdrew from the race on February 25, 2013 and endorsed Justin Trudeau. [120]
Takach was born in Toronto of Hungarian descent. He went to the University of Toronto for his BA and received his MA in International Relations from Carleton University.
During the campaign he supported improvements to the country's high-tech infrastructure. He also supported the legalization of marijuana and was opposed to a merger with the NDP. [121] [122] [123]
Newspaper | Candidate Endorsed | Reference |
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The Prince Arthur Herald | Martha Hall Findlay | [151] |
Toronto Star | Justin Trudeau | [152] |
Justin Trudeau won the 2013 Liberal leadership in a landslide first-ballot victory and lead the third-place party into a majority government in the 2015 federal election. The voter turnout was 82.16% of all registered voters. [153] [154]
Candidate | |||||
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Votes cast | % | Points allocated | % | ||
Justin Trudeau | 81,389 | 78.76% | 24,668.71 | 80.09% | |
Joyce Murray | 12,148 | 11.76% | 3,130.76 | 10.16% | |
Martha Hall Findlay | 6,585 | 6.37% | 1,760.43 | 5.72% | |
Martin Cauchon | 1,630 | 1.58% | 815.86 | 2.65% | |
Deborah Coyne | 833 | 0.81% | 214.14 | 0.70% | |
Karen McCrimmon | 757 | 0.73% | 210.08 | 0.68% | |
Rejected Ballots | 1,210 | ||||
Total | 104,552 | 100.00 | 30,800 | 100.00 |
Justin Trudeau won the most points in all but 5 of the 308 ridings, with the remaining 5 (British Columbia Southern Interior, Vancouver East, Vancouver Island North, Vancouver Kingsway, and Vancouver Quadra) all being won by Joyce Murray. [153]
Polling firm | Last date of polling | Link | Sample size | Mark Carney | Deborah Coyne | Ken Dryden | Marc Garneau | Martha Hall Findlay | Gerard Kennedy | Dominic LeBlanc | David McGuinty | Joyce Murray | Bob Rae | Justin Trudeau | Other/ Undecided |
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Forum Research | January 17, 2013 | 1,626 | — | 2% | — | 10% | 3% | — | — | — | 2% | — | 34% | Don't know 26% None of these 19% Martin Cauchon 3% George Takach 1% | |
Forum Research | December 18, 2012 | 1,355 | — | 1% | — | 12% | 2% | — | — | — | 2% | — | 39% | None of these 23% Don't know 19% David Bertschi 1% George Takach 1% | |
Léger Marketing | December 6, 2012 | 1,500 | — | 1% | — | 16% | 3% | — | — | — | 0% | — | 38% | Don't know 42% David Bertschi 0% Alex Burton 0% Karen McCrimmon 0% David Merner 0% Jonathan Mousley 0% René Roy 0% George Takach 0% | |
Forum Research | June 15, 2012 | 1,529 | — | — | — | 4% | 4% | 5% | 4% | 6% | — | — | 23% | Don't know 44% John Manley 7% Scott Brison 4% | |
Forum Research | April 26, 2012 | 1,744 | 4% | — | 8% | 3% | — | 5% | 3% | 6% | — | 18% | 17% | Don't know 42% | |
Forum Research | February 6, 2012 | 736 | 5% | — | 12% | 6% | — | 7% | 4% | 6% | — | 33% | 26% | — | |
Forum Research | January 13, 2012 | 1,211 | 4% | — | 9% | 4% | — | 5% | 3% | — | — | 21% | — | Don't know 46% Dalton McGuinty 4% Naheed Nenshi 4% |
Polling firm | Last date of polling | Link | Sample size | Mark Carney | Deborah Coyne | Ken Dryden | Marc Garneau | Martha Hall Findlay | Gerard Kennedy | Dominic LeBlanc | David McGuinty | Joyce Murray | Bob Rae | Justin Trudeau | Other/ Undecided |
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Forum Research | January 17, 2013 | 367 | — | 1% | — | 6% | 3% | — | — | — | 3% | — | 63% | Don't know 16% None of these 4% Martin Cauchon 2% George Takach 2% | |
Forum Research | December 18, 2012 | 337 | — | 1% | — | 16% | 3% | — | — | — | 1% | — | 63% | Don't know 11% None of these 3% David Bertschi 1% George Takach 1% | |
Léger Marketing | December 6, 2012 | 248 | — | 1% | — | 20% | 2% | — | — | — | 0% | — | 60% | Don't know 16% David Merner 1% David Bertschi 0% Alex Burton 0% Karen McCrimmon 0% Jonathan Mousley 0% René Roy 0% George Takach 0% | |
Forum Research | June 15, 2012 | 333 | — | — | — | 6% | 4% | 5% | 4% | 9% | — | — | 33% | Don't know 26 John Manley 7% Scott Brison 6% | |
Forum Research | April 26, 2012 | 365 | 4% | — | 7% | 2% | — | 8% | 1% | 2% | — | 30% | 24% | Don't know 21% | |
Forum Research | February 6, 2012 | 221 | 4% | — | 5% | 3% | — | 5% | 3% | 9% | — | 40% | 30% | — | |
Forum Research | January 13, 2012 | 223 | 12% | — | 9% | 8% | — | 7% | 6% | — | — | 47% | — | Dalton McGuinty 8% Naheed Nenshi 3% | |
Léger Marketing | September 15, 2011 | HTML | 243 | — | — | — | — | — | 5% | 4% | — | — | 19% | 21% | Jean Charest 6% Denis Coderre 3% |
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