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Lucille Collard will carry the Liberal banner in the rock-solid Liberal riding of Ottawa-Vanier in the yet-to-be-called byelection to replace Nathalie Des Rosiers.

Collard defeated Lauren Touchant in a nomination vote held Saturday.

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Collard, a 54-year-old federal government lawyer and married mother of four, has lived in the riding for 25 years. She is chair of the Conseil des écoles publiques de l’est de l’Ontario and has served nine years as trustee on the board.

She said Premier Doug Ford’s “detrimental” cuts to education in Ontario were “like an invitation to fight.”

“We need to care about what happens in our schools,” she said. “We need to be doing more, not less.”

Some 335 party members voted at the meeting at Ecole Secondaire Public de la Salle.

“We are very excited to have Mme. Collard join our team as our candidate for Ottawa-Vanier,” Brian Johns, president of the Ontario Liberal Party, said in a statement after the results were released. “With her impressive credentials and history of community engagement, we are certain she will be able to hold this important riding in the upcoming by-election.”