While many of my Sun Media colleagues have had the chance this summer to enjoy the hospitality aboard the Liberal Express, I have not — until today. I'm picking up Michael Ignatieff's summer tour on its last days, as it travels from Halifax to Cape Breton and the end-of-summer national Liberal caucus in Baddeck, N.S.
The tour today stops in Elmsdale at 0900, Masstown at 1100, Antigonish at 1330 and Big Pond at 1700.
I and other reporters then head to Baddeck this evening while Ignatieff and the bus overnight in Sydney. Ignatieff will then arrive Monday in Baddeck to begin the caucus.
The bus ride today is full of Liberal candidates, MPs, and Senators including:
- MPs Scott Brison, Maria Minna, Geoff Regan, and Rodger Cuzner
- Senators James Cowan, Terry Mercer, Wilfred Moore