OTTAWA — Nova Scotia Liberal MP Jaime Battiste says he is dropping out of the Liberal party leadership race and backing former central banker Mark Carney.
The MP for Sydney—Victoria made the announcement in a statement sent out late Thursday by his campaign.
"After careful consideration and many discussions, I believe that the best way forward to advocate and advance the priorities, which I outlined earlier this week during my campaign, of advancing reconciliation, protecting our environment, and an affordable Canada by addressing the wealth gap is to support Mark Carney for the Liberal Party of Canada Leadership and Prime Minister of Canada," Battiste said in a statement Thursday.
The news release said the party had"its best-ever January" for grassroots fundraising and that, over the last month, more than 100 Canadians had reached out to be a Liberal candidate in the next election.At the event, he said he had a"prosperity agenda.
"You get hit, you hit back. You get hit twice, you hit back twice. He puts a dollar tariff, fine, we put a dollar tariff," Baylis said."He will understand that he is not pushing us around."
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