Liberals Announce Danielle Martin as Their Candidate in Byelection for Freeland’s Toronto Riding

Voters heading to cast their vote at a polling station for the Toronto riding of University-Rosedale during early voting in the last federal election on Oct. 19, 2015. The Canadian Press/Aaron Vincent Elkaim

The Liberal Party says family physician Danielle Martin will be the party’s candidate in the upcoming federal byelection for the University–Rosedale riding in Toronto, which former MP Chrystia Freeland stepped down from in January.

Martin is also the executive vice-president at the Women’s College Hospital in Toronto and leads the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She appeared before a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 2014, for which she received “widespread recognition” for her remarks about Canada’s public health-care system, according to a biography posted by the Liberal Party.