{"id":2169,"date":"2013-02-27T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/27\/chomedey-delegates-support-bachand\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:55","slug":"chomedey-delegates-support-bachand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/27\/chomedey-delegates-support-bachand\/","title":{"rendered":"Chomedey delegates support Bachand leadership bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Robert Frank<\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\nMembers of the Liberal Party of Quebec voted, Feb 4, to send their entire slate of delegates to the party\u2019s upcoming leadership to support Raymond Bachand in his campaign for the party\u2019s leadership post. <\/p>\n<p>The 24-member delegation includes Lise Bacon, who served as a senior Quebec cabinet minister under Robert Bourassa and later as a senator in Canada\u2019s upper house of parliament until 2009. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the beginning of this race, I have supported Raymond Bachand,\u201d Guy Ouellette, Chomedey\u2019s representative in the Quebec legislature, said in a statement. \u201cI know he is the leader whom we need and I am happy to see that the delegation in my riding agrees with my thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach Liberal riding association is entitled to send 24 delegates to the convention,\u201d Bachand leadership campaign spokeswoman Mee-Rang Ricard-Bouillon told <i>The Suburban. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The delegates will attend the leadership convention in Verdun, March 17, to cast their ballot in the vote to determine who will become the next leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome delegations won\u2019t have 24 members though, because party rules require the delegation to comprise eight men and eight women, as well as four young men and four young women 25 years-of-age or less,\u201d she explained, \u201cbut some ridings have been having troubling finding four young men, unlike Chomedey, which has the full slate of 24 delegates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Ouellette and Ms. Bacon have supported Mr. Bachand from the outset,\u201d Ricard-Bouillon enthused.<\/p>\n<p>She added that in some other ridings, the delegates reflect differing views as to who should occupy the party\u2019s top spot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe delegations from some ridings that don\u2019t have [Liberal] MNAs will be mixed,\u201d Ricard-Bouillon observed, \u201clike in Jacques Cartier, where two-thirds of the delegates are supporting Mr. Bachand and a few others Mr. Couillard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laval des Rapides riding association had not yet voted on whom its candidates would endorse at the time <i>The Suburban<\/i> went to press.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-wYxf9asukx4\/UTAyTrGzqnI\/AAAAAAAAAgY\/DQ5VO5xtX_c\/s1600\/Raymond+Bachand.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Raymond-Bachand.png\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<b>Raymond Bachand<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i[&#8216;GoogleAnalyticsObject&#8217;]=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){<br \/>\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),<br \/>\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)<br \/>\n  })(window,document,&#8217;script&#8217;,&#8217;\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js&#8217;,&#8217;ga&#8217;);<\/p>\n<p>  ga(&#8216;create&#8217;, &#8216;UA-45892555-1&#8217;, &#8216;robertfrankmedia.blogspot.com&#8217;);<br \/>\n  ga(&#8216;send&#8217;, &#8216;pageview&#8217;);<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Frankwww.thesuburban.com Members of the Liberal Party of Quebec voted, Feb 4, to send their entire slate of delegates to the party\u2019s upcoming leadership to support Raymond Bachand in his campaign for the party\u2019s leadership post. 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