{"id":3104,"date":"2011-08-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2012-05-29T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:32:00","slug":"alp-leadership-candidate-profiles-the-doctor-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=3104","title":{"rendered":"ALP Leadership Candidate Profiles: The Doctor is in"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Alberta Liberals will be selecting a new leader on September 10th, from among 5 candidates: Laurie Blakeman<\/a>, Hugh MacDonald<\/a>, Raj Sherman<\/a>, Bruce Payne<\/a>, and Bill Harvey<\/a>. To vote, simply register here<\/a> as an ALP supporter by August 19th.<\/p>\n

Today, the second part of a series profiling the candidates (previously – Bruce Payne<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n

RAJ SHERMAN<\/strong> <\/center><\/p>\n

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Background<\/strong>: Sherman moved to Canada from India at a young age, and has lived in Edmonton since the 1980s, attending the U of A and then staying to practice as an emergency room doctor. According to his rateMDs reviews<\/a>, he was a pretty good one (one review states “McDreamy is an understatement<\/em>“). Sherman took the plunge into elected politics in 2008, riding the Stelmach wave across Edmonton and taking back Edmonton-Meadowlark for the PCs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So how did the good doctor go from PC backbencher to ALP leadership frontrunner in under a year? Well, it all comes down to his very own Kai Nagata <\/a>moment last November, when he fired off a late night e-mail<\/a> to his entire address book slamming the Stelmach government’s Health Care record. Suffice to say, that was it<\/a> for Raj in the PCs, and his move to the Liberals was a natural fit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Video<\/strong>: I didn’t have a chance to video interview Raj during May’s ALP convention<\/a>, but I include a mash-up of Sherman clips from the all-candidates debate conducted that weekend:<\/p>\n