{"id":2477,"date":"2009-11-09T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2009-11-09T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T00:01:00","slug":"frank-mckennas-perpetually-ajar-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2477","title":{"rendered":"Frank McKenna’s Perpetually Ajar Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

With today’s “McKenna keeps door ajar<\/a>” headline sure to generate some buzz, perhaps it’s time for a stroll down memory lane<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1989<\/strong>: Ontario Premier David Peterson interrupted a brief vacation with Frank McKenna Tuesday to suggest that the New Brunswick premier should run for the federal Liberal leadership.<\/em><\/p>\n

1990<\/strong>: Whispers about McKenna’s interest in replacing John Turner have been growing in New Brunswick in recent weeks because the premier is shopping for a new speech writer.<\/em><\/p>\n

1997<\/strong>: Journalist Allan Fotheringham, who reported this in the Financial Post, suggested the Martinites regard former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna as a real danger, though it’s hard to see the country choosing a man so earnest and eager to please.<\/em><\/p>\n

1998<\/strong>: Frank McKenna, the political wunderkind who ran New Brunswick for a decade and is still only 50, might be persuaded to leave the corporate world and go into federal politics, where he was once expected to go.
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2002<\/a><\/strong>: The former premier of New Brunswick, Frank McKenna, has also been mentioned as a potential candidate.
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2003<\/strong><\/a>: Mr. McKenna, who attended the Liberal convention briefly last week and didn’t rule out running.
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2004<\/strong><\/a>: McKenna has made it clear that while he wants to run for election in a seat in the Moncton area, he does not want to fight for the nomination with an incumbent MP.<\/em><\/p>\n

August 2005<\/a><\/strong>: Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., Frank McKenna, is seen as the prime contender to replace Prime Minister Paul Martin.
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December 2005<\/strong><\/a>: Topping everyone’s list of heirs-apparent is Canada’s ambassador to the U.S., Frank McKenna.<\/em><\/p>\n

January 2006<\/strong><\/a>: The body isn’t even warm yet, and already there are at least two senior Liberals — Frank McKenna and John Manley — who insiders say are quietly gearing up their leadership campaigns.<\/em><\/p>\n

January 2006<\/strong><\/a>: A longtime friend and political ally of McKenna’s said the former premier is a “political addict” and will be very tempted to plunge into the leadership contest.
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May 2006:<\/strong><\/a> A source, however, told The Hill Times that “don’t be surprised if you see the draft [Frank] McKenna campaign by late July” if none of these official Liberal candidates emerges as a clear front-runner.
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July 2006<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong> If you ask some Liberals whom, among the 11 candidates, is going to win the
leadership campaign, the answer is now the twelfth, Frank McKenna.<\/em><\/p>\n

October 2008<\/strong><\/a>: McKenna Eyeing Liberal leadership: source<\/em><\/p>\n

October 2008<\/a><\/strong>: “I don\u2019t think the people who are putting his name out there are doing it without some indication that he wants it out there,” one Liberal said Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n

November 2009<\/a><\/strong>: And he said the door – which always has been slightly ajar since he left elected office – is still open for a return to public life. “It’s fair to say that door is ajar, but I don’t say that in a kind of tantalizing way,” McKenna said.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With today’s “McKenna keeps door ajar” headline sure to generate some buzz, perhaps it’s time for a stroll down memory lane. 1989: Ontario Premier David Peterson interrupted a brief vacation with Frank McKenna Tuesday to suggest that the New Brunswick premier should run for the federal Liberal leadership. 1990: Whispers about McKenna’s interest in replacing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}