Former Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay is expected to announce her candidacy for the party's leadership race today in Calgary, the day the party's executive will officially kick off the race.
Hall Findlay, who also ran for the leadership in 2006, is making her announcement at the BMO Centre just after 2 p.m. ET.
Stephen Carter, who ran the successful campaign of Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Premier Alison Redford, is heading up Hall Findlay's campaign team. Carter is said to be a brilliant organizer, with a penchant for finding new constituencies for candidates.
Hall Findlay had owed money to herself from her last leadership campaign, but cleared that debt with donations last month.
Wednesday is also the day the party's national board of directors will meet to call the start of the race, with the winner to be announced April 14, 2013.
Candidates must pay a fee of $75,000, with the first third due when they register. Jan. 13 is the last day to register and to make the final payment toward the registration fee.
Hall Findlay joins a list of declared candidates, including:
- Ottawa lawyer David Bertschi.
- Vancouver lawyer Alex Burton.
- Toronto lawyer and professor Deborah Coyne.
- Montreal MP Justin Trudeau.
Other possible candidates include:
- Former Montreal MP Martin Cauchon.
- Montreal MP and former astronaut Marc Garneau.
- Former president of the B.C. branch of the federal Liberal Party David Merner.
- Economist Jonathan Mousley.
- Vancouver MP Joyce Murray.
- Toronto lawyer George Takach, who has a campaign team that includes veteran Liberal organizer Mark Marissen.
Liberal MPs Denis Coderre and Dominic LeBlanc, as well as interim leader Bob Rae, have said they won't run.
Would-be candidates have much to prove
Other than the MPs or former MPs who might run, few of the candidates or would-be candidates have shown much to prove they can muster the financial resources or the constituencies that would put them over the top.
So far, it can almost be said that Justin Trudeau is in the position of running against himself. Two public figures who would have been considered major contenders — former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty and Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney — have ruled themselves out.
Much has been written about Trudeau's social media skills, manifested by his over 165,000 Twitter followers, which might be put to use for an end run around the traditional Liberal elites to attract supporters.
But a Liberal insider says that the irony is that Trudeau actually has the support of almost all of the traditional party elites, and that he might be trying to portray himself as someone who is not the new establishment.
Some of the potential leadership candidates are tentatively feeling out whether they can raise enough money for a respectable run.
Money 'essential'
Mousley, who is currently on leave from Ontario's Ministry of Finance, says on his website that donations are "absolutely essential."
Merner told a Victoria radio station Monday that he's trying to raise $100,000 in donations by the end of the month. The party's leadership rules include a $950,000 spending limit.
"I'm a $100,000-by-the-end-of-November guy. If I can raise the money I'm in, if I can't I'm out," Merner told CBC News.
Merner, a Victoria resident, resigned his position as president in B.C. in June, saying at the time he was leaving "to focus on fundraising and other activities that are essential to participating in the Liberal leadership race as a candidate."
Merner said he won't be signing up right away when candidate registrations open on Wednesday. The deadline for nominations is Jan. 14.
Merner is a longtime Liberal and a former federal government lawyer who completed degrees at Harvard, Oxford, the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto before practising law. He is currently employed as a civil servant in B.C. working on changes to B.C.'s justice system. He is married and has four daughters.
The Liberals will choose their new leader April 14 in Ottawa. A new party "supporter" category means people who want to help choose the leader but not become party members will also be able to vote.
The party is planning to gather in Ottawa Friday for a kickoff party and celebration of longtime Liberal MP and elder statesman Herb Gray.
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