Re: Mike Bossio to chair Rural Caucus

Ken Fisher | Mar 02, 2016

A big shout-out to life-time Liberal, Lorne Jenkins and the laurels he bestowed in his Feb. 27 letter (Re: Mike Bossio to chair Rural Caucus) in the Frontenac News on the victorious neighbouring MPs, Mike Bossio (Hastings–Lennox & Addington) and Mark Gerretsen, (Kingston and the Islands) – both persons of long-standing in their communities. I’m sure he’d also like to mention our youthful family man from Inverary, Phil Archambault. A year ago the polls wrote off the Liberals, moving them from #2 and then down to #3! What a difference a year made. Thanks to Phil’s team’s year-long campaign efforts (and JT’s), the Liberal vote was more than doubled from 17% to 35%! Conservative Scott Reid dropped from 57% to 49%, his 2004 level five elections ago! In every candidate debate across this riding, Phil was acclaimed the winner. He also won every high school mock parliament election in both counties. Here’s the arrival of change in Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston in 2019. Goodness knows we need Phil in Ottawa for sunny ways to shine here in L-F-K too.