‘They’re really riled up here’: Conservatives circling Goodale’s lone Liberal seat in Saskatchewan

‘The numbers are holding very closely to what they were last time. It all depends on turnout,’ says Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, the 31-year House MP.

Liberal MP and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale is running to capture his seat in Regina-Wascana for the ninth consecutive time, while anger towards his government has made the Liberals deeply unpopular in much of Saskatchewan. 'I always assume that I am 50 votes behind, and I have to go find them.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

October 14, 2019

Conservatives from across the Prairies are working to try to unseat longtime Liberal MP Ralph Goodale in Regina-Wascana, Sask., where a local columnist says anger towards Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the carbon tax has reached a boiling point.

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