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Pierre Poilievre and his three principles of politics

Luckily, the Federal Accountability Act doesn’t apply to campaign co-chairs.

Or the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association might have had to find someone else to take over – the outgoing president and CEO, Peter Barnes, was registered as an in-house lobbyist until his departure earlier this year, and it’s likely that his successor will be obliged to do the same:

The Lord is my co-pilot

La Presse reports that Bernard Lord will be named national co-chairman of the Conservative campaign on Friday. The other co-chair will be even more surprising, but I’m sworn to secrecy. The posts seem even more ceremonial this year than they did when John Reynolds and Democratic Elected Senator-To-Be Michael Fortier held the positions.