Behind the scenes of the campaign trail
With wit and brutal honesty, Noah Richler gives a peek behind the world of electoral campaigning, having run for the NDP in the bellwether riding of Toronto-St. Paul's in 2015. This is the last in a series of excerpts from the finalists for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. The winner will be announced May 10 at the Politics & the Pen gala in Ottawa.
Just 10 people were in the boardroom when, that afternoon, my bid for the nomination was approved. The 10 applauded as I entered, and immediately, the certainty came over me that had this been a Conservative gathering the room would have been filled with portly men all seeming in their 50s, whether ...
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