A few items to report, starting with the results of last night's nomination meeting:

• Notre-Dame-de-Grâce – Lachine, QC - Well, actually, to no-one's surprise five-term Liberal M.P. Marlene Jennings was renominated by acclamation last night in her riding. Jennings vote share may have dropped slightly from 60%-ish to 44%, but no opposition candidate has ever come close to touching her.
• Saint-Laurent – Cartierville, QC - Liberal Québec Lieutenant and Bourassa M.P. Denis Coderre refused to confirm to La Presse Canadienne last night whether former Liberal leader Stéphane Dion would be running again, saying only that a meeting on the forthcoming election was to be held today. Readers tell me that Coderre's comments should be read in light of the past relationship between the two, and that Dion was planning as recently as May to run again.
• Longueuil – Pierre-Boucher, QC - 2008 Liberal candidate in neighbouring Saint-Bruno – Saint-Hubert, QC Pierre Diamond also announced last night that he will be seeking the Liberal nomination in this south-shore riding. Diamond is the second Liberal candidate to surface with links to the provincial ADQ, after former ADQ MNA Claude Morin was nominated in the Beauce, QC last month. Diamond's son, Simon-Pierre Diamond, is ADQ executive director, and Coderre has been musing for awhile about making inroads with disaffected adéquistes, which has not gone unnoticed by at least one Liberal blogger.
  
• Thornhill, ON - A little bird tweeted in my ear that things are about to get very interesting for the Liberals in this 905 riding northwest of Toronto. We earlier reported that former Liberal M.P. Susan Kadis was considering whether to run again against first-time Conservative M.P. Peter Kent. The seat is known to have the largest concentration of adherents of the Jewish faith (36.63% in 2001, the last census in which religion data was reported), however it also rated in the top sixth of ridings for visible minority populations in 2006, and boasted the 19th highest after-tax family income.
  
• Saskatoon – Rosetown – Biggar, SK - A reader writes to say that three-time NDP candidate Nettie Wiebe is set to give it one more try in the forthcoming election. The former president of the National Farmers' Union had increased her vote share from 26% to 44% between 2004 and 2008, and came within just 262 votes (the 12th closest race of the last election) of winning the seat won briefly by her brother-in-law Dennis Gruending, who kept the seat for the NDP during a 1999 by-election but then lost it to the Alliance/Conservatives in 2000. The riding is currently represented by first-time Conservative M.P. Kelly Block, who took it over from retiring three-term Conservative M.P. Carol Skelton.
  

Some general items of nomination news:

• Denis Coderre also told TVA last night that a further 15 Liberal nomination meetings would be concluded by the end of July. He separately told Le Devoir meanwhile that 30 meetings would be held between now and Labour Day.
• Reaction from various parts of the country, now under consideration by Green Party leader Elizabeth May, appeared this morning.
• Sources within the New Democrats also tell me that the NDP has lifted its freeze on remaining nominations, having already lifted it for incumbents and by-election ridings last month. Dippers are discussing their dream tickets for various east-coast ridings and western cities on the Accidental Deliberations blog and a Babble thread. [UPDATE: And a reader writes to advise that indeed NDP Riding Presidents have been contacted by the party office about the opening of nominations, and what the process will be.]
  

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Labels: 41st General Election Nominations, Liberals, NDP