Toronto-area Liberal MP Maurizio Bevilacqua and former Ontario NDP premier Bob Rae will hold a press conference in just over an hour to announce that Bevilacqua is withdrawing his candidacy for leadership of the Liberal Party and will support Rae’s candidacy.
Mr. Bevilacqua may have some explaining to do about some comments he made in the speech on April 19 that kicked off his campaign. Most took this particular line as a shot at Rae, who would declare his candidacy shortly thereafter:
“When it came [time] for me to choose a political party, it was the Liberal Party of Canada, my first and only choice.”
Bevilacqua was also seen as the most right-leaning of all candidate and Rae is, well, a former NDP premier :).