None of the 11 candidates have any real interest in rural, or Western, politics in Canada. All are really interested in the same urban, hip, progressive vote.
Memo to Steckle: maybe you should cross the floor to the Conservatives? Someone like you will NEVER win the leadership of today's Liberal Party.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")