The Calgary Herald reports:
EDMONTON – Former provincial cabinet minister Gary Mar is expected to announce soon his candidacy in the Tory leadership race, but he won’t be granted a leave of absence from his current post as Alberta’s representative in Washington, D.C….
I recently wrote up some of Mar’s DC advocacy to Congress as well as the kinds of questions he got from US lawmakers:
Gary Mar to Congress: oil sands will create 640,000 jobs in US [Bilateralist.com]
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