Grits only have 22 candidates nominated

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The Manitoba Liberal Party has nominated 22 candidates for the Sept. 10 provincial election and hopes to have a full slate of 57 ready to go by shortly after the writ is droppeddrop.

“There will be 25 (by) Friday, with more to come next week,” party leader Dougald Lamont said Wednesday.

“We are trying to get them nominated as quickly as possible but we have processes to follow,” he said.

Liberal party rules call for at least seven days’ notice of a constituency nomination meeting. However, once the writ drops, which will occur no later than Aug.13, notice is no longer required.

Lamont said the party has candidates lined up, but they are still going through the vetting process.

At one point this week, Elections Manitoba’s website showed there were more Green party candidates nominated than Liberal candidates, but the Liberals have since pulled ahead. The Greens have nominated 18 candidates, while the NDP has nominated 44 and the Progressive Conservatives 49.

On Wednesday, Lamont pledged that a Liberal government would not privatize government services or Crown corporations.

He said while both the NDP and the Tories have privatized services while in government, the Liberals would not under any circumstances.

“We’re actually trying to make decisions based on evidence, and the evidence is that privatizations don’t actually work that well,” Lamont said.

— Larry Kusch