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Ms. Stronach had mounted a campaign team quickly, led by former cabinet minister Reg Alcock, and including Quebec organizers Richard Mimeau and Brigitte Legault. Close friends said weeks ago that she was “99 per cent” in the race and “almost certain” to run.
But party insiders said her travels across the country to solicit support turned out many Liberal interested to meet her, but few who would commit to backing her.
Not least among her troubles in a party that considers itself the champion of bilingualism, Ms. Stronach's French was broken, at least, and her assurances that she would learn quickly were met with skeptcism. When a reporter asked her in French if she would run for the leadership, she did not understand the question, and asked for it to be repeated in English.