By day’s end on Thursday, the race to become the next leader of the Liberal Party of Canada — and the country’s 24th prime minister — had narrowed to five candidates.
One of those remaining candidates vows to deport 500,000 “illegal immigrants”; another would halve the size of cabinet; another would cut the GST while raising corporate taxes; just about all seemed prepared to bail on the consumer carbon tax while one — the perceived leader in the race — has been noticeably silent and media-shy.
That perceived leader — the former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney — will de-cloak in Halifax Friday morning where he will make an announcement and take questions from reporters, the first time he will answer journalists’ questions in more than a week. Carney will face the press with two of of the more than 50 members of the Liberal caucus that have endorsed him standing behind him.
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