It’s a hard line to straddle. Are the Liberal MPs who announced they were heading for the exits when the polls were down but now want to contest their seats political opportunists? Or are they answering a call to duty?
On Tuesday, Sean Fraser, the Nova Scotia MP and former minister of housing and immigration, announced he’d changed his mind and would stand for re-election. “I will be the Liberal candidate in Central Nova during this federal election,” he posted on Facebook. “Yesterday, Prime Minister Mark Carneycalled and asked me to join the team that will be responding to this unprecedented economic threat from the United States. I said …
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