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Donna Hope who has reverted to her maiden name from her former surname of Bauer will also contest the seat. She was the state member of Carrum and lives in Dunkley. She became a flight attendant after leaving politics.

Party member and executive Peter Bain will also contest the seat, and more candidates may emerge when nominations are announced by the party.

Former Liberal MP Chris Crewther.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

None of the candidates were able to speak to The Age because Liberal Party rules prohibit nominees from discussing the race in the media.

The Victorian Liberal Party is considering whether to disallow about 20 people from staying on as members because their memberships were paid for by the same credit card, which is against party rules. Most of the members reside in Dunkley, but the vast majority would not have been members long enough to vote in the preselection, which is only open to those who have been members for more than two years.

The memberships were paid for by a party activist linked to the faction aligned to party president Robert Clark. The administrative committee recently assessed the memberships and heard from the party member, who argued many of those signed up were direct family members, which is within the rules.

Liberal Donna Hope.Credit:Simon Schluter

Two senior Liberal sources in Dunkley, who spoke anonymously to abide by party rules, said Mr Crewther had a rusted-on support base of about 20 local branch members, while Ms Coombes would attract the support of locals seeking new talent.

The Labor Party will be hoping Chris is chosen again, one source said. They know how to beat him, and he lost the Liberal base.

An electoral redistribution to adjust for population growth will create a safe Labor seat in Victorias north-west and will probably cause the Liberals to drop a seat in Western Australia. Accounting for the defection of NSW MP Craig Kelly, the Coalition will head into the election two seats short of the 76 members required to form government in the House of Representatives.

Peter Bain.Credit:Eddie Jim

The Liberals will spend heavily to campaign in Dunkley because Victoria is a state where few seats tend to swing, meaning efforts can be focused on key targets. The Liberals will also fight to hold onto Chisholm, in Melbournes eastern suburbs, which was won by 564 votes.

The preselection could take place in August owing to a delay caused by the rescheduling of the partys state council meeting. This was scheduled to go ahead last weekend but was delayed until late July because of the lockdown.

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A vote defeating an abortion bill from a Conservative MP reignited Liberal government attacks against the partys leader for seeming out of touch by failing to put a lid on the debate.

Saskatchewan MP Cathay Wagantall brought forward Bill C-233, which sought to ban doctors from performing an abortion based on the sex of a fetus, which was defeated in a 248-82 vote Wednesday afternoon.

Wagantall argued her private members bill was more nuanced than other debates surrounding abortion because it only looks at the issue of terminating a pregnancy through sex selection, which she and supporters including some fellow Conservative MPs worry disproportionately affects baby girls.

While MPs, including Liberals, said they didnt support sex-selective abortion, they blasted the bill in previous debates as a Trojan horse attempting to restrict the reproductive rights of women, also questioning the sources of information presented in support of the bills cause.

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Hours before Wednesdays vote, Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef released a letter she penned to OToole asking the leader to call on his caucus to vote against what she calls a dangerous bill.

This is in fact the seventh time since 2007 that a Conservative Member of Parliament has worked hard to limit womens choices, she said at a news conference.

OToole has said he personally wont support the proposed legislation as he is pro-choice. His office said he will allow a free votes on matters of conscience for his caucus.

In a statement Wednesday, he said: I support a womans right to choose and my record speaks for itself. As prime minister, my government will secure the rights of Canadians and never erode them.

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Melanie Joly, the economic development and official languages minister, appeared alongside Monsef at the news conference and said OTooles stance isnt good enough.

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It is not enough for you to personally say that you will not vote in favour of C-233 and free vote is also not good enough, said Joly.

For our rights to be safe, we need to to curb all policies that attempt to control womans bodies.

Joly suggested OToole allowed the bill, first introduced under the leadership of MP Andrew Scheer, to be kept alive in Parliament because he earned his partys victory last summer thanks to votes from anti-abortion groups.

During the race, OToole made a pitch to the supporters of MP Derek Sloan and Toronto lawyer Leslyn Lewis, who had the backing from many social conservatives, to mark him as their number 2 or number 3 choice in the ranked ballot system.

In turn, he promised that as leader, their views would be respected.

Keeping that pledge without exposing the party to attacks from Liberals and other critics that it would allow for the debate on abortion rights to be reopened remains a balancing act for OToole.

Since becoming leader, he has focused his attention on speaking to those he wants to see vote Conservative in the next federal election who perhaps havent done so in the past, like more women, and emphasizing his views as pro-LGBTQ rights and pro-choice.

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During the 2019 election campaign, Scheers socially conservative views on abortion and same-sex marriage dogged him in the lead up to the vote, as he wouldnt immediately clarify his views.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 25, 2021.

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Last week, Liberal MPs on the Commons health committee talked and talked to filibuster a meeting about what the committee would do with its last seven meetings before the summer.

The stalling was organized because opposition MPs wanted one of those meetings to be devoted to having officials explain another kind of stalling: the governments refusal to hand over piles of documents about how the COVID-19 pandemic was handled.

Its been obvious since those documents were first requested last October that the government didnt really want to hand over the papers.

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But now, there is, in the eyes of the Liberal government, an end in sight: just a few weeks to go. They can run out the clock.

There is a crazy mix of time pressures at the close of a minority Parliaments sitting, especially when the session seems destined to end soon because an election is expected.

The Liberal government is rushing to push through key bills they want passed into law before a widely expected fall election, but they are also doing their best to run out the clock on various opposition-initiated orders and studies like the request for pandemic documents.

If the Liberals can stall until Parliament rises, an election will (probably) be called in the fall, and the motion demanding the government disclose documents will die. Home free!

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Thats just one example. Liberals MPs have in recent weeks filibustered at the defence committees hearings into sexual misconduct by top military commanders and the procedure and house affairs committees review of Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus decision to prorogue Parliament last August.

It really is the Liberal festival of filibusters, said Conservative House Leader Grald Deltell.

It is not entirely new. In minority Parliaments, opposition parties in the majority can vote to hold hearings or demand documents, and governments sometimes seek to obstruct them.

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Stephen Harpers Conservatives filibustered committees in 2008, before Mr. Harper declared Parliament dysfunctional and called an election. In 2011, Mr. Harpers government fell on a motion declaring him in contempt for failing to deliver documents detailing the costs of corporate tax cuts, crime legislation and F-35 fighter jets then won a majority in the following election.

So the Liberals can say that Conservatives did it, too. Which is like saying you have become the thing you used to criticize.

At the health committee, the government has said the request for documents will cover a million documents, but provided about 8,400. Where are the other 992,000? asked New Democrat MP Don Davies.

Last week, opposition MPs proposed agendas for the last seven meetings of the session, including one where senior officials would be asked to explain the failure to provide the documents. Liberal MPs filibustered. In a pandemic, Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner noted, the government wont disclose documents on things such as vaccines and procurement of personal protective equipment.

At the defence committee, Liberal MPs have blocked efforts to have the chief aide to Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan testify. On Monday, opposition MPs presented a motion requiring the committee to present a final report to the House of Commons by June 9. Liberals filibustered.

In the procedure and house affairs committee, theres a double dose of hypocrisy. There, MPs are conducting an inquiry into Mr. Trudeaus reasons for proroguing Parliament in August, which upended the progress of bills and committee studies, like inquiries into the WE Charity affair. (The Commons ethics committee, after many hours of delays, is supposed to report on a revived WE study this week.)

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The funny thing is that the committee is studying prorogation because, back in the 2015 election, Mr. Trudeau criticizing Mr. Harper for being unaccountable promised prime ministers would have to explain their reasons for proroguing.

The government has provided written reasons, but opposition MPs, believing it had more to do with cutting off parliamentary scrutiny, pushed for Mr. Trudeau to appear in person to explain it. Liberal MPs filibustered for months. The Liberals were using stall tactics to cut off a study of stall tactics, to avoid Mr. Trudeau having to explain the thing he promised that PMs would have to explain.

I am aware there is a certain crushing irony, said New Democrat MP Daniel Blaikie.

But finally, there is now a little hope of movement at that committee. Mr. Trudeau probably still wont testify, but maybe there will be enough co-operation so MPs can actually write their report about prorogation. Theres an election bill the Liberals want to pass before summer, and it has to go through that committee.

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It is puzzling why the liberal mainstream media, many editorial pages, and articles by left-leaning columnists are expressing concern for the future of the Republican Party. Their praise for the courage, honesty, and integrity of the GOP House and Senate members who bucked their party and voted to impeach President Donald Trump is truly heartwarming.

Liz Cheney is the latest darling of the left following in the foot steps of Senator Bill Cassidy. While Cheney has voted consistently against the radical left agenda, all is forgiven because of her impeachment vote and criticism of Trump. The coordinated label by left-wing media against Trump's reaction to the election is "The Big Lie."

I don't recall their outrage of "The Bigger Lie." The documented lying to the FISA Court by the FBI to obtain warrants to spy against Trump associates.

The false Steele dossier financed by the Clinton campaign to lie about aspects of the Trump campaign.

The false claims that Russia and Trump conspired and cost Hillary Clinton the election, which still is perpetuated today.

Of course, there was the three-year investigation and $35 million of taxpayer money spent on the Mueller report. This resulted in zero evidence of Trump-Russian collusion. It was all a hoax and witch hunt and a "Big Lie."

The hypocrisy of the left is beyond belief.

RON CHAPOTON

financial planner

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