Rogue riding executive stirring up trouble for Ignatieff: MP

Outgoing Liberal MP Jean Augustine defends her successor and denies she was pushed out.

Despite rumours that she was pushed out by senior Liberal strategists, former MP Jean Augustine is rushing to defend the party's new star recruit who is getting off to a rough start in his bid to replace her as Member of Parliament for the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore.

Ms. Augustine said tension in the riding--stirred up by the arrival of the new Liberal candidate, academic Michael Ignatieff--is being caused not by senior...