Seniors and area residents were ready with a slate of questions for Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Doug Horner when he stopped by the Glendon and District Seniors Centre on Wednesday morning for coffee.
Questions ranged from education and special needs students to BSE, the electricity transmission system and rural communities.
The stop in Glendon marks Horner's second visit to the area since the start of the campaign. While candidate Alison Redford visited the area in May, other candidates have not yet held public events in the St. Paul area.
The campaign will spend a lot more time in the south in the coming weeks, said Horner after the meeting. “We're going to be all over the province."
Bonnyville – Cold Lake MLA Genia Leskiw joined Horner in Glendon and toured with him in the constituency throughout the day.
“I told him three and a half years ago, 'one day you're going to make a fine premier,' and my mind has never changed," recalled Leskiw, regarding her decision to support Horner.
“He's articulate, he has integrity," she praised. “I think he can do the job of uniting all of the PC people," she said, adding, “I wasn't expecting him to run this early because I was an Ed Stelmach fan."
The Wildrose Party leader tour across the province coincides with the six leadership candidates' campaigns, with stops in St. Paul, Mallaig, Elk Point, Myrnam, Bonnyville and Cold Lake on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Danielle Smith's tour has possibly had a positive effect on his campaign for PC leadership because of the contrast in policies, Horner said.
“What they've finally started to come out and talk about in their policies versus what we're talking about is starting to show what they really stand for. For a long time we didn't know what they stood for."
For the full story, see the Journal on Tuesday.
