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Allan Thompson to establish and lead federal
Liberal task force on rural outreach
Special to the Clinton News
Record
Former Huron -Bruce federal Lib-
eral candidate Allan Thompson has
been asked by the federal Liberal
party to setup and chair a task force
to be called "Project Rural" to begin
a major program of research and
outreach in rural ridings.
The full details of the task force's
composition and mandate are still
being finalized, but work will begin
almost immediately. The task force
will be established under the Liberal
Party of Canada (Ontario) and will
begin its work in rural ridings across
the province.
At the outset, the goal of "Project
Rural" is to design a program of out-
reach in federal ridings across
Ontario that are predominantly
rural. A first step will be to consult
with former Liberal candidates,
their campaign teams and electoral
district associations from ridings
with a significant rural presence.
But equally important, the task
force will engage directly with com-
munities in ridings that are pre-
dominantly rural or have a signifi-
cant rural presence. Project Rural
will also conduct research into key
rural issues and will tap into existing
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Former Huron -Bruce federal Liberal candidate Allan Thompson to set up
task force "Project Rural". Thompson is pictured here with Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau during the 2015 election campaign.
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"We must be regarded as a party
and government that has some-
thing to say to rural voters. And hav-
ing
aving something to say starts with lis-
tening," said Thompson. "Ithinkthe
federal Liberal party can work
harder to connect with people who
live in rural communities."
As the Liberal candidate in
Huron -Bruce in last year's election,
Thompson ran on a theme of pro-
viding a strong rural voice. He and
his supporters moved the Liberal
party from a distant third in 2011 to
a very competitive second -place
finish in the October 19 election.
And Thompson's experience mir-
rored that of many other candidates
in ridings with a significant rural
component.
Alongside MP Kim Rudd (North-
umberland -Peterborough South),
Thompson was asked to lead a
panel on "the rural campaign" at
the LPC(0) Executive Board meet-
ing held in Ottawa in early Decem-
ber. To prepare for that session, he
was in touch with candidates in a
number of predominantly rural rid-
ings and conducted an informal
survey about lessons leamed from
the 2015 campaign. A central find-
ing of that surveywas that there is a
need to start now re -connecting
with rural candidates and their
communities and to build a major
program of outreach in rural
ridings.
Thompson was born and raised
on a farm in Bruce county and is
now a journalism professor at Car-
leton University. Based on his expe-
rience as a candidate, he took the
initiative to propose to the Liberal
party that it set up the Project Rural
task force. Liberal Party of Canada
(Ontario) President Tyler Banham
has formally tasked Thompson with
establishing and chairing the
initiative.