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2025 Liberal Leadership Debates

Liberal Party of Canada leadership candidates Frank Baylis, Mark Carney, Ruby Dhalla, Chrystia Freeland, and Karina Gould take part in a French-language debate in Montreal. The debate is organized by the Liberal party and is moderated by Pierre Jobin. The party will announce the results of its leadership election on March 9, 2025.
Liberal Leadership: The Race in 2025

The Liberal Party of Canada will announce its new leader on Sunday, March 9. Candidates must declare their intention to run by Jan. 23 -- and deliver a $350,000 entrance fee that's payable in four installments. Eligible voters must be registered Liberals by Jan. 27 -- and this time the party is restricting the vote to Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and those with Indian Act status.
1990 Liberal Leadership

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2023 Liberal Convention

Liberals meet for their first in-person convention since 2018. They'll debate policy, elect new party officials, and prepare for the next federal campaign.
2009 Liberal Leadership

Stéphane Dion gave notice that he would resign the Liberal leadership following the party's worst result in a federal election. The Liberals fell to 77 seats and 26% of the popular vote in October 2008.
2006 Liberal Leadership

The 2006 election placed Stephen Harper and the new Conservative party in power, leading to Paul Martin's resignation. Ten months later, thousands of Liberal delegates met in Montreal. This time, there was no automatic coronation.
2003 Liberal Leadership

Jean Chrétien announced his intention to retire in August 2002. Paul Martin ran for a second time, hoping to replace the man who defeated him 13 years earlier and became prime minister in 1993.
1984 Liberal Leadership

Liberal hopefuls returned to the same arena floor 16 years later as Pierre Trudeau bid farewell to both the leadership and the prime minister’s office.
1968 Liberal Leadership

The race to succeed Lester B. Pearson produced one of the most dramatic conventions in Canadian political history.
1958 Liberal Leadership

Louis St. Laurent planned to step down following the party's loss in the 1957 election and the end of 22 years of Liberal government, replaced by a Progressive Conservative minority.
1948 Liberal Leadership

Twenty-nine years to the day of W.L. Mackenzie King's 1919 victory, Liberals returned to Ottawa to vote on his successor.
1919 Liberal Leadership

Sir Wilfrid Laurier died earlier in the year after leading the party since 1887. For the first time in Canada, a federal party’s leadership would be decided by a full convention, which was originally intended by Laurier to renew the party after eight years in opposition.
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Headline Politics

Liberal MPs on National Security

Liberal members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security discuss a new report on Canada’s national security on May 2, 2017.
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Headline Politics

News Conference – Liberal MPs on Electoral Reform

On December 1, 2016, Liberal members of the Special Committee on Electoral Reform discuss their supplemental report and respond to the committee’s majority report.
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Public Record

The Liberal government’s record on transparency

Treasury Board President Scott Brison, Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault and Carleton University Professor Mary Francoli discuss access-to-information and open government at a Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom event marking the Liberal government's first year in power. ( Oct. 25, 2016 )
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Headline Politics

Justin Trudeau Speaks to Liberal Caucus

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses members of the federal Liberal caucus in Saguenay, Que., on August 25, 2016, during the party’s national summer caucus meeting. (no interpretation)
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CPAC Special

2016 Liberal Convention – Trudeau Speaks in Party Constitution Debate

At the 2016 Liberal Biennial Convention in Winnipeg on May 28, 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau moves the motion calling for the Liberals to adopt a new party constitution.
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CPAC Special

2016 Liberal Convention – Justin Trudeau Press Conference

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a media availability following his keynote address at the 2016 Liberal Biennial Convention in Winnipeg on May 28, 2016.
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CPAC Special

2016 Liberal Convention – Interview with Kirsty Duncan

CPAC’s Jacqueline Milczarek speaks with Science Minister Kirsty Duncan at the 2016 Liberal Biennial Convention in Winnipeg on May 28, 2016.
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CPAC Special

2016 Liberal Convention – Niigaan James Sinclair and Sheila North Wilson

At the 2016 Liberal Biennial Convention in Winnipeg, CPAC’s Holly Doan is joined by Niigaan James Sinclair (the head of the Department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba) and Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak grand chief Sheila North Wilson to discuss the Liberal government’s ambitious agenda for Canada’s indigenous peoples.