Tories off to pre-election 'boot camp'

Candidates to be drilled: Possible revival of the Big Blue Machine?
Andrew Mayeda, CanWest News : Monday, March 12, 2007 Canada.com

OTTAWA - Hundreds of federal Conservative candidates and campaign workers will converge on a Toronto convention centre this week for a political "boot camp" designed to prepare them for the next election. They will get a first-hand look at a party organization that, in just three years, has evolved from a makeshift collection of amateurs into the most well-funded, well-oiled machine in federal politics. Over three days of activities starting on Friday at the Toronto Congress Centre, candidates will be drilled in everything from the basics of door-to-door canvassing to the art of delivering the pithy sound bite.

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COLIN MAYES SIGHTINGS Local M.P. will have served cake at Safeway and given speech on Building a stronger, safer and better Canada in Salmon Arm on March 14 so he can make it back to Toronto to attend BOOT CAMP ?