The race for the leadership of the Manitoba Liberal Party has a second candidate.
Dougald Lamont says he is entering the race that will be decided at the party’s Oct. 23 convention.
Lamont ran in 2013 and finished a distant second to Rana Bokhari, who stepped down after last year’s election that saw the Liberals win three of the 57 legislature seats.
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Lamont says he is getting in the race earlier his time and is hopeful because he is more of a known quantity to provincial Liberals.
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The only other candidate so far is Cindy Lamoureux, a 25-year-old who was first elected to the legislature last year.
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Lamont owns a small digital media company and is also a lecturer in government-business relations at the University of Winnipeg.
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