Trudeau taps veteran Jeremy Broadhurst to run Liberal re-election campaign GlobePolitics
The Liberal Party of Canada has appointed long-time Liberal organizer and staffer Jeremy Broadhurst as its campaign director for the next general election, confirming that Katie Telford will not return to the position that she held in the 2015 race.
However, the Liberal brain trust was shaken up by the departure of Gerald Butts as principal secretary to the Prime Minister in February over the SNC-Lavalin affair. Ms. Telford is now expected to remain in her position until the start of the writ period to oversee the implementation of the government’s agenda.It remains unclear whether Mr. Butts will play an active role in the next Liberal campaign, nor exactly what position Ms. Telford will occupy once the election is called.
On Wednesday, a star candidate from the 2015 election, former lieutenant-general Andrew Leslie, announced that he will not run again in the next election. Mr. Leslie, who is the MP for the Ottawa riding of Orléans and parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, said it was time for him to “take a new path.” Mr. Leslie is joining a number of Liberal MPs who are retiring from politics, such as Mark Eyking and Rodger Cuzner of Nova Scotia.
In the past election, Mr. Broadhurst played a key role in amassing and analyzing data from voters through an active volunteer campaign on the ground and the use of modern technology.
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