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Joyce Murray, the British Columbia MP, has officially announced her decision of entering the Liberal Leadership race on Monday, as she attempts to test her famous environmentalist credentials to the Liberal leadership contest. Murray is the first western Canadian MP to actually enter the competition.
58-year-old Murray has previously held the office of B.C. Environment Minister in the past. She is the founder, along with her husband, of a reforestation firm. Murray’s announcement came at a very crucial time as the party’s critics are accusing Liberals of having an anti-Alberta, or even wore anti-western Canada, biasness.
Murray, having a similar opinion to Trudeau, condemns the project of $6.5-billion Northern Gateway oil sands pipeline. Another fellow important candidate of the leadership, former Ontario MP Martha Hall Findlay, conversely favors the controversial project. The official stance of the Liberal party, under the captaincy of interim leader Bob Rae, is that the party will wait the joint National Energy Board-Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency review of Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway project. A decision that is due in late 2013.
Murray kept the office of B.C. Environment Minister under former Liberal premier Gordon Campbell from 2001 to 2004. She then made failed attempts to win a provincial seat in 2005, and a federal seat in New Westminster-Coquitlam in 2006. Murray than fought and won from the federal riding of Vancouver Quadra in a 2008 byelection, and has won the contests of subsequent general election until 2011.
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