OTTAWA - Liberal leadership frontrunner Justin Trudeau knocked his rivals Sunday for taking potshots at his candidacy, saying Canadians turned away from the Liberal party in the past when leadership rivals start squabbling amongst each other.
"The Liberal party lost its place ... because people were tired of the party turned in on each other, turned in on bickering and fighting," Trudeau said in Halifax Sunday, during the fourth of five leadership race debates. "That's why I'm relentlessly positive in this campaign and that's why the top-down, backroom-heavy, negative campaign run by other people in this campaign is something I don't think Liberals want to see and I know they're certainly not responding to right across the country."
Trudeau did not name those negative campaigners though it seemed clear he was referring to Marc Garneau, Martha Hall Findlay and Martin Cauchon.
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