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Vote coming Jan. 19

Fortune Bay-Cape La Hune residents will soon know who their Liberal candidate will be for the 2015 provincial election.

Nominations opened last Wednesday and close Jan. 12. Voting will take place Mon., Jan. 19.

Three residents of the Coast of Bays said in 2014 that they would be seek the nomination - Bill Carter of Harbour Breton, Conrad Collier of St. Albans and Mildred Skinner of Harbour Breton.

The candidates outlined some of their views in an earlier Advertiser article.

Bill Carter

Carter said one of the key issues in the district is the co-existence of its two main industries the traditional fishery and the aquaculture industry.

Its well known that the aquaculture industry has been a huge economic boost to the region in the past eight years, he said. We really need to make sure the industry is managed properly, particularly from a bio-security perspective.

We need to protect the long-term stability, viability and sustainability of the industry which has to be managed in a constructive manner.

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The federal Liberals continue to maintain a slight lead in public support, according to a new Forum Research poll.

With an election to be held in or before October, the Liberals have the support of 37 per cent of Canadian voters, with the Tories holding onto 33 per cent, the survey, found.

The New Democrats are at 20 per cent support.

The Liberals saw a slight drop in fortunes, down from last months total of 41 per cent support, while the Conservatives remained steady at 33 per cent.

The NDP jumped slightly from 17 per cent in December.

While the Liberals still lead, its a more modest kind of parity than weve seen recently, Forum Research president Lorne Bozinoff said in a statement.

He said the 30 new seats being added to the House of Commons for the next election favour the Conservatives, who, according to Bozinoff stand to win a small minority despite trailing slightly in the popular vote, based on the latest poll results.

In the last half year the Conservatives have eaten into the previously large lead the Liberals enjoyed since choosing Justin Trudeau as their leader in 2013.

The two parties have been virtually neck and neck since this past fall.

The official Opposition New Democrats, however, have seen no more than 23 per cent support from respondents since last May.

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Liberal Massachusetts Rep. Mike Capuano incensed the moderates when he said if Democrats support rolling back Dodd-Frank regulations, you might as well be a Republican. | AP Photo

Moderate House Democrats are warring with the dominant liberal faction over the leftward shift of the caucus, arguing that theyll never win back the majority if they dont change their message.

Tension reached a boiling point during a closed-door caucus meeting Wednesday over the partys stance toward Wall Street banks, according to multiple sources at the meeting.

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Liberal Massachusetts Rep. Mike Capuano incensed the moderates when he said if Democrats support rolling back Dodd-Frank regulations, you might as well be a Republican.

Capuanos comments were so pointed he immediately offended the handful of Democrats who had voted with Republicans previously on the issue and still support it, the sources said. Capuano said in an interview that he stood by his remarks and he had not heard that any of his colleagues were upset. The bill was defeated by Democrats Wednesday.

The moderate Democrats pushed back in the caucus meeting in exchanges described as intense and emotional.

They were angered because that same legislation had garnered support from more than 70 Democrats in the 113th Congress, but became a political landmine after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) criticized the legislation as a Wall Street handout.

The vocal infighting highlights the growing divide between the large bloc of Warren liberals and the dwindling number of moderate Democrats a fight that will likely continue next week when Republicans make their second attempt to change the controversial Dodd-Frank law.

I feel strongly that the Democratic body is supposed to be representing the average American who is unaware and incapable of defending themselves when it comes to things like Wall Street abusing them, Capuano said in an interview. I feel strongly about it and I said so.

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