page_title: Joe Volpe
section_title: Leadership candidate
hierarchical_section_title: Joe Volpe / Opposition member, 2006–2011 / Leadership candidate
caption_attribution_description: Joe Volpe talking to reporters, presumably about stepping out the race.
context_page_description: Giuseppe Joseph "Joe" Volpe, PC, is a Canadian politician. He represented the Ontario riding of Eglinton-Lawrence as a member of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 until 2011, when he lost his seat to Conservative candidate Joe Oliver. Volpe held two senior positions in Prime Minister Paul Martin's Cabinet from 2003 to 2006, and served as transportation critic when his party became the Official Opposition. In 2006, he ran unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party leadership.
context_section_description: Paul Martin resigned the Liberal leadership after the election, and a new leadership contest was scheduled for late 2006.  Volpe announced his candidacy on April 21, 2006.  During his campaign launch, he said, "We don't need to re-invent the Party. We just need to give it back to the people who are its rightful owners. We need to take it back from the backroom players who hide behind new faces."  He highlighted education and training issues, and said that Canada should be more accommodating to new immigrants.  Volpe also argued that Canada should return to a peacekeeping ethos in foreign affairs, rather than primarily engaging in combat missions.  After the party's first all-candidates debate, he accused frontrunner Michael Ignatieff of echoing the foreign policy vision of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
  At the start of his campaign, Volpe was supported by Liberal MPs Jim Karygiannis, Wajid Khan, Yasmin Ratansi, Joe Comuzzi, Sukh Dhaliwal, Massimo Pacetti, and Lui Temelkovski, and former MPs Nick Discepola and Bob Speller.  Dhaliwal, Karygiannis and Ratansi later withdrew their support.
caption: Joe Volpe speaking to the press at the 2006 Liberal leadership convention.
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