Former NDP Premier Bob Rae "will always be the man who suffered one of the greatest political humiliations in Canadian history, kicked out of office after one term by Ontario voters who had had more than their fill of his scandal-plagued government," Murray Campbell writes in his profle of the former Ontario premier A new day for Bob Rae: 'I am what I am'
"So his decision to re-enter the political world by running for leader of the federal Liberal party has sparked a thriving industry analyzing his motives: Is it boredom with private life? Is he seeking redemption?"
But the answer may in fact be simpler and more pragmatic, Mr. Campbell rights. He is what he is. And he is a politician.
Mr. Campbell will be our guest Monday at noon EDT to answer questions about Mr. Rae and about his profile, published in Saturday's Globe, of the man considered by most experts to be one of the front-runners in the Liberal race.
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Mr. Campbell is the Queen's Park columnist of The Globe and Mail.
He joined The Globe in 1977 after earlier experience at The Toronto Star, The Ottawa Citizen and in England. In his career with the Globe, he has worked in a wide variety of positions, including city editor and sports editor. He also served as bureau chief in both Los Angeles and Washington in the 1990s. Since then, has worked as a national and foreign desk reporter, both based in Toronto, and as a feature writer.
Mr. Campbell was a Southam fellow at Massey College, the University of Toronto, in 1983-4 and won The Globe's Stanley McDowell award for writing in 1992 for his coverage of (among other things) the L.A. riots and the U.S. presidential election that year.
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