School board trustee Lucille Collard and local councillor Stephen Blais elected OTTAWA— The Ontario Liberal Party won two by-elections in Ottawa today. Local school board trustee Lucille Collard and city councillor Stephen Blais celebrated hard-fought victories after campaigning for months. “I am so grateful to the residents of Ottawa-Vanier for trusting me to be…
TORONTO, ON — The Hon. Chrystia Freeland and Interim Leader John Fraser are set to co-chair the upcoming Ontario Liberal Leadership Convention on March 6-7 in Mississauga. This comes on the heels of the leadership election meetings when Ontario Liberals from all 124 local riding associations, in addition to student clubs and women’s clubs, cast…
Today Interim Leader Fraser welcomed Amanda Simard, MPP for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, into the Ontario Liberal caucus. “I’m pleased to welcome Amanda as the newest member of our caucus and our Ontario Liberal family,” said Fraser, “Our party has a long, proud history of standing up for French-language rights and I know that Amanda will continue to…
Thousands of Ontarians to participate in 2020 Leadership Election Toronto, ON – In advance of the leadership convention in March 2020, membership of the Ontario Liberal Party has surged to 37,831 strong. Members who signed up prior to December 2 are eligible to participate in Leadership Election Meetings (LEMs), taking place across the province on…
December 9, 2019 Good evening everyone. Thank you so very much to Kara and her team. Bon soiree tout le monde. Bienvenue a Queen’s Park et merci pour votre presence. C’est un grande honneur d’etre ice parmi vous. This is a bit of a breathtaking experience being here with all of you tonight. Let me…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 25, 2019 Official 2020 Ontario Liberal Leadership Candidates Announced ONTARIO – The Ontario Liberal Party is pleased to announce the official list of candidates running in the 2020 Leadership Election.We have six candidates who have met the cut-off time of 5 p.m. on November 25, 2019. The candidates are (in alphabetical…
OTTAWA – The Ontario Liberal Party released the following statement on the anniversary of “Jeudi Noir”: November 15th marks one year since Doug Ford’s conservative government made drastic cuts to services for Ontario’s francophone community. When Ford eliminated the French Language Services Commissioner and played coy with the Université de l’Ontario Français, Franco-Ontarians came together…
ORLÉANS – Hundreds of local Liberals gathered on Saturday afternoon to nominate Stephen Blais as their Liberal Candidate for the upcoming by-election in the Provincial riding of Orléans. “I am honoured that my community has chosen me to be their representative at Queen’s Park” said Mr. Blais. “Orléans deserves a strong advocate who will fight…
September 7, 2019 OTTAWA – VANIER – Local Liberals have nominated Lucille Collard to be their candidate for the upcoming by-election at an event in Ottawa – Vanier on Saturday. “We are very excited to have Mme. Collard join our team as our candidate for Ottawa – Vanier,” said Brian Johns, President of the Ontario…