Dion, Kennedy join fight over Rae delegates

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OTTAWA — Gerard Kennedy and Stephane Dion have joined forces with Liberal leadership frontrunner Michael Ignatieff in a bid to nullify most of chief rival Bob Rae's delegate support in British Columbia.

Should the trio successfully persuade the party to negate the second-place contender's B.C. delegates, Ignatieff's nine-percentage point lead would widen to about 11 points over Rae, who would be left only marginally ahead of Kennedy and Dion.

Kennedy and Dion are currently in a virtual tie for third place in the leadership contest and are vying with Rae to become the contender best positioned to overtake Ignatieff during multiple ballots at the party's December leadership convention.

The Kennedy and Dion camps joined Saturday in an appeal filed with the party late Friday by the Ignatieff team.

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Interesting battle in BC. Kennedy and Dion neck and neck.

And there are still 30 locations to report out of 471 in the country.

Looks like a Kennedy, Dion merger.