{"id":594540,"date":"2026-04-10T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594540\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:15:10","slug":"liberals-meet-for-second-day-of-confab-in-montreal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594540\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals meet for second day of confab in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Liberals are meeting in high spirits on the second day of their national party convention in Montreal \u2014 just days before the party is expected to clinch a majority government.<\/p>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Liberals are meeting in high spirits on the second day of their national party convention in Montreal \u2014 just days before the party is expected to clinch a majority government.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a series of byelections are expected to grant the Liberals a majority mandate without having to call a general election, even if they don&#8217;t win them all.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney, who brought the party back from the brink in last year&#8217;s election, was welcomed by loud fanfare from grassroots supporters when the convention kicked off Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Carney has turned the party into a magnet for opposition MPs, winning his fifth floor crosser in as many months earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Top Liberals welcomed their newest MP \u2014 former Conservative Marilyn Gladu \u2014 with open arms, saying their party is a &#8220;big tent&#8221; that welcomes different views.<\/p>\n<p>Former prime minister Justin Trudeau made an appearance by video to welcome attendees, saying they should be proud of the Canada they built together.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Liberals are meeting in high spirits on the second day of their national party convention in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-594540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}