Provincial Liberal Party president Danny Dumaresque is confused.
He turned up in Montreal this weekend, as reported by vocm.com, "making sure someone is speaking up for the province. He says he's there specifically to push the federal government to transfer the 8 and a half percent ownership of Petro-Canada's offshore oil interests to the province."
The meeting was of federal riding presidents. Dumaresque isn't one of them. He's president of the provincial party.
There was really no reason for Dumaresque to be turning up there, except if he had another agenda on his mind. Like say his leadership campaign that he won't announce. That would explain the reference to speaking up for the province when there are already plenty of elected people quite capable of doing that.
Plus there are a bunch of Liberal candidates in the three federal ridings currently held by Conservatives, any one of whom could do the same job.
So what exactly is Danny Dumaresque doing in Montreal, other than demonstrating he is somewhat uncertain about his job as provincial party president?
Oh yes.
And campaigning for the provincial party leadership.
As for "his agenda" being favourably received, we might all wonder to which agenda he is referring.
His leadership agenda seems to be going over like a lead balloon.
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