Voters in four counties across the country, including one in Quebec, can go to the polls Monday to choose their new federal representative.
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By-elections will be held on June 19 in the electoral districts of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount, Quebec, Oxford, Ontario, Winnipeg-South Center, Manitoba, and Portage-Lisgar, Manitoba to fill vacancies in the House of Representatives of Commons.
It should be noted that in Quebec, the seat of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount has been vacant since early March after Liberal MP and former minister Marc Garneau resigned amid controversy between his own party and the stance of the to represent Anglophones in Montreal in the debate over the new official language law.
The former astronaut was first elected in Westmount-Ville-Marie in 2008 and then re-elected in the new Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount constituency in 2011 and 2015 before being appointed transport secretary in Justin Trudeau’s cabinet in the Liberal government. He was re-elected in 2021 and subsequently appointed Secretary of State from January 2021 to October 2021.
A total of ten candidates will seek his successor on Monday. Among them will be Anna Gainey of the Liberal Party of Canada trying her luck, as will Laurence Massey of the Bloc Québécois, Jean-François Filion of the New Democratic Party and Mathew Levitsky-Kaminski of the Conservative Party of Canada, and Jonathan Pedneault, vice leader of the Greens Party of Canada.
The four by-elections:
– Notre-Dame-de-Grâce–Westmount (Quebec): former rider of the Liberal Marc Garneau
– Oxford (Ontario): former Conservative Dave MacKenzie rider
– Portage–Lisgar (Manitoba): former rider of Candice Bergen
– Winnipeg–South Center (Manitoba): former rider of Jim Carr