Welcome to our first 2025 Leadership Bulletin, where we will provide you regular updates on our Liberal leadership race.
Friend,
Welcome to our first 2025 Leadership Bulletin, where we will provide you regular updates on our Liberal leadership race.
Last night we announced that the race will conclude on March 9, 2025 – and that you have until January 27 to register as a Liberal to be eligible to vote for the party’s leader.
The National Board of the Liberal Party also made the following decisions:
The entrance fee for a candidate to join the leadership race will be $350,000. A leadership contestant must declare their participation in the race by January 23, 2025.
Suzanne Cowan, Past President of the Party, and Marc-Etienne Vien, LPC(Q) Director, will co-chair the Leadership Vote Committee. This committee will be responsible to plan and organize the Leadership vote, and will start to meet in the coming days to finalize the remaining procedures of the vote.
MP Patricia Lattanzio and John Herhalt, Chair of the Federal Liberal Agency of Canada, will co-chair the Leadership Expense Committee. This committee will adopt Leadership Expense Rules for the leadership race, as well as set a maximum expense limit. They will begin meeting in the coming days to finalize these procedures.
Protecting the integrity of our democratic process, while still engaging as many people as possible, is one of the Liberal Party of Canada’s top priorities. The National Board also made the decision to update the requirements for becoming and maintaining status as a Registered Liberal. To be a Registered Liberal, a person must:
be at least fourteen (14) years of age;
support the purposes of the party;
be a Canadian citizen, have status under the Indian Act, or be a permanent resident of Canada.
not be a member of any other federal political party in Canada; and
while Registered as a Liberal, not have publicly declared an intention to be a candidate for election to the House of Commons other than as a candidate of the Party.
The Liberal Party of Canada looks forward to running a secure, fair, and national race that will elect the next Leader of the party. For more details on the Leadership race, please visit our website: lpc.ca/2025leadership
