
Carney campaigning in his Ottawa riding today, Poilievre in Winnipeg
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney will be campaigning in Nepean, Ottawa while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will be at a rally in Winnipeg today.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney will be campaigning in Nepean today, the Ottawa riding where he is seeking election.
Carney has faced questions about his decision to run in Nepean, which became vacant only after the Liberal party ousted MP Chandra Arya as its candidate three days before the election was called.
The party has not clearly laid out exactly what Arya did that has prevented him from being a candidate, though Carney says it was a decision that was up to the green-light committee that screens candidates.
The Liberal party also barred Arya from running for the party leadership in January, citing various rules violations.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, whose Carleton riding shares a boundary with Nepean, will be at a rally in Winnipeg today.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh made an appearance at a campaign event scheduled in Ottawa this morning, pledging to cap grocery prices and ban corporations from buying up affordable homes.
Carney has said that he has been a “resident in the Ottawa area for almost 20 years,” with the exception of when he lived overseas in London, U.K. and that he knows Nepean well.
He does not however live in the riding.