Despite theorizing to the contrary, Jim Prentice does not presently sound like someone much interested in making a triumphant return to politics.
Tag Archives: Bernard Lord
The Commons: The baby face of Canadian conservatism
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:
David Emerson – Shamelessly exhausting the world supply of political irony before the campaign even gets started
UPDATE – According to someone who was watching CTVNewsNet this morning – or, what we in the business like to call, “an unnamed source”, Bernard Lord’s co-pilot will indeed be David Emerson. Whee!
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.