For the first time, last week I had an op-ed published in the Free Press.
The piece discussed the impact of being left out of the New West Partnership on its 2nd anniversary. The piece can be found here.
The piece generated a bit of interest as I even got an interview request for CKSB (French CBC). This interview focused less on the impacts of being left out and more on the political reasoning of why Manitoba was left out. On peut trouver l'entrevue ici.
For the success in both of these endeavors I have to say a big thank you to the Action Canada advisers for all their advice and training during my fellowship year!
It seems the Liberals might be able to attract more candidates to their race than the PCs... Now who could have predicted that a few months ago...
I know next to nothing about Chopra but he does seem like he could bring some solid positives to the struggling party. He is also a much more credible candidate than Robert Young.
Does anyone know what his current job is? The article I can find only states: "More recently, he has worked with the lobbyist organization The Capital Hill Group, based in Ottawa"
Polling status quo (as exciting as the provincial political news cycle this summer)
Probe's summer poll numbers haven't moved much.
With a leadership race that has all the excitement and media coverage of paint drying, I'm surprised the PCs haven't dropped down a few points. While still within the margin of error I'm sure some Liberals are happy to see themselves back over the double digit mark. One interesting note on the poll was the relatively high percentage of undecided at 24%.
