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Most neophyte Conservative candidates would be thrilled to attract a political heavyweight such as Jason Kenney to speak at their campaign launch.
And Abdul Abdi, who will represent the Conservatives in Ottawa West-Nepean in the Oct. 19 federal election, was clearly delighted when Kenney and fellow cabinet minister Pierre Poilievre showed up for his campaign launch this week.
But what Abdi didn’t anticipate was that Kenney, an ebullient partisan, would seize the opportunity to deliver a 30-minute pitch highlighting the innumerable reasons why the Conservative government deserves re-election.
That wouldn’t have been a problem, except first-time candidate Abdi, who followed Kenney to the podium, had written a speech, neatly summarized on 32 index cards, covering precisely the same ground.
“I was going to talk a bit about the Conservative government and what we’ve done,” he ruefully told about 80 supporters at his launch party, “but I’m telling you, every single point that I wanted to talk about, the minister did.”
“Repetition is important,” an apologetic Kenney helpfully suggested.
In the end, an unfazed Abdi set aside his index cards and spoke “from the heart” about his life as a teenaged refugee in Canada, winning points for resourcefulness with his audience of supporters.
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And Abdul Abdi, who will represent the Conservatives in Ottawa West-Nepean in the Oct. 19 federal election, was clearly delighted when Kenney and fellow cabinet minister Pierre Poilievre showed up for his campaign launch this week.
But what Abdi didn’t anticipate was that Kenney, an ebullient partisan, would seize the opportunity to deliver a 30-minute pitch highlighting the innumerable reasons why the Conservative government deserves re-election.
That wouldn’t have been a problem, except first-time candidate Abdi, who followed Kenney to the podium, had written a speech, neatly summarized on 32 index cards, covering precisely the same ground.
“I was going to talk a bit about the Conservative government and what we’ve done,” he ruefully told about 80 supporters at his launch party, “but I’m telling you, every single point that I wanted to talk about, the minister did.”
“Repetition is important,” an apologetic Kenney helpfully suggested.
In the end, an unfazed Abdi set aside his index cards and spoke “from the heart” about his life as a teenaged refugee in Canada, winning points for resourcefulness with his audience of supporters.
dbutler@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/ButlerDon
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