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From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
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Subject: [OT] Liberal candidate steps down after bounty remarks
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 23:45:28 -0400
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Paul Chiang, the incumbent Liberal MP who advocated turning his 
Conservative opponent over to China for the bounty, won't be contesting 
the election after all. He has stepped down as a result of the 
controversy despite Mark Carney saying he could stay on.

This story had more "legs" than you might expect given Canadian media's 
love of the Liberals. I think Carney had his people tell Chiang to step 
down to minimize the blowback on Carney although I can't prove it.

Curiously, a Conservative candidate who had said some embarrassing 
things a couple of years ago on a comedy podcast - he'd suggested 
Trudeau should be hung in the wake of his suppression of the Trucker's 
Convoy - was dismissed by the Conservative Party leadership, apparently 
as soon as they learned about the remarks.

-- 
Rhino