Ruby Dhalla, a Liberal leadership candidate, plans to use a translator at the party's upcoming French-language debate despite not having mastered the language. Dhalla, one of five candidates vying to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, says she will make her opening and closing statements in French at the debate in Montreal on February 24th.
OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidate Ruby Dhalla says that while she's still working on her French skills, she plans to ask for a translator to help her in the party's upcoming French-language debate.
She says she plans to appear at the French debate in Montreal on Feb. 24 and make her opening and closing statements in French, despite not having mastered the language.
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