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   The Canadian Press - Sunday, July 26, 2015   
      
   Heckler disrupts Eve Adams as she speaks at Liberal nomination meeting   
      
      
   TORONTO -- A Conservative defector faced a rough start Sunday as she made a   
   final appeal to Liberals to allow her to carry their standard into the federal   
   election against Finance Minister Joe Oliver.   
      
   Eve Adams had barely begun her pitch to about 150 people in a steamy   
   auditorium when a man stood up in the audience.   
      
   "I urge you today for the sake of the party, if you love the Liberal party,   
   please withdraw," the man said.   
      
   "Shame!" and "Sit down!" others retorted.   
      
   Adams, who crossed the floor from the Conservatives in February to be welcomed   
   personally by Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, ignored the heckle.   
      
   She paid a passing nod to her only rival for the Eglinton-Lawrence candidacy,   
   lawyer Marco Mendicino, before stressing her political credentials.   
      
   "I'm a fighter.  That's pretty clear.  I will fight harder for you than Joe   
   Oliver ever will," Adams told the crowd.   
      
   "I'm a fighter, I'm progressive, I'm also a young mom, a full-time mom."   
      
   Adams pledged to move into the riding if chosen and talked about her work   
   ethic, but said nothing about her former party affiliation.   
      
   She also paid tribute to the Liberal leader, who both sides say has stayed out   
   of the bitter nomination battle.   
      
   "Justin Trudeau has a vision," she said.  "He is the most inspired leader I   
   have ever worked for."   
      
   Her speech received mostly polite applause, in contrast to the standing   
   ovation and chants of "Marco!" that greeted the end of her rival's speech.   
      
   Nominated by long-time provincial Liberal Mike Colle, who once said Adams   
   would represent the riding over his dead body, Mendicino began his speech by   
   reminding the audience of Adams' past.   
      
   "The decision to cross the floor was a courageous one and I salute you," said   
   Mendicino, a married father of two.   
      
   "I am not a career politician but I have learned that at its heart, politics   
   is about the people.  I live in the riding.  Put simply: Our life is in this   
   riding."   
      
   Mendicino, a former prosecutor for almost 10 years, criticized Prime Minister   
   Stephen Harper and his Conservatives for failing to deliver for "hard-working"   
   Canadians.   
      
   Saying the riding needs "real change," he said he had what it would take to   
   knock off Oliver in the vote that must occur no later than Oct. 19.   
      
   Following the speeches, riding Liberals began more than three hours of voting   
   for either Mendicino or Adams, with results expected Sunday evening.   
      
   Trudeau's decision to welcome Adams into the Liberal fold angered some   
   Liberals.   
      
   She left the Conservatives amid allegations of dirty tricks related to a Tory   
   nomination battle last year.   
      
   Her fiance Dimitri Soudas was a spokesman for Harper for years.   
      
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