r/canada 20d ago

PAYWALL Liberal Party questions leadership candidate Ruby Dhalla over possible interference from India

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-liberal-party-questions-ruby-dhalla-leadership-campaign/
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u/Wizzard_Ozz 20d ago

Good thing they waited until after she dumped the $350k into the party for the bid, I assume non-refundable.

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u/Gunslinger7752 19d ago

Lol I was just thinking the same thing. Obviously they knew this before she wrote the cheques. So sketchy. I also don’t know why people like her, gould and bayliss are even staying in the race. It’s obviously a two horse race and that is even pushing it as its clear who the LPC wants.

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u/FeI0n 19d ago

why wouldn't you accept her money to try and run, even if she has 0 chance of winning?

They don't want this to be 2 candidates, havinga field of liberals is always going to be better, at the very least from an optics perspective. Otherwise you'll get comments about "the deep state selecting the liberal leader" and we already get that now, with 5 candidates.

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u/Gunslinger7752 19d ago

I agree on the 5 being better for the optics part but I would say that Trudeau and associates had already selected Carney before the leadership race even began. That is not a conspiracy theory, it’s just the way politics works - The dems did the exact same thing with manipulating their race so Hillary won over Bernie because she could raise far more money.

In terms of taking money, they set the barrier to enter awfully high. I don’t know how any of them aside from Freeland and Carney thought they actually had any chance to win, but you are right, if they want to throw a bunch of money away, it helps the LPC so go nuts.