Premier Christy Clark will be in Ottawa Friday morning, giving the opening remarks at the 2012 Manning Networking Conference.
Organized by Preston Manning’s Manning Centre for Building Democracy, the conference is billed on its website as “a conservative family reunion”. And with a speaker’s like Guy Giorno, Tom Long, Richard Ciano and Chuck Strahl the weekend conference is veritable who’s who of the Canadian right.
The appearance will put Clark before national leaders, her an opportunity to try and move the discussion back to her preferred topics of jobs and the economy. More importantly, though, it will also allow her to again try to establish her credentials on the right — something she will need to do a lot in the days ahead, given the vote split she’s facing with the BC Conservatives.
In her speech, Clark is expected to talk about her recent belt-tightening budget, to tout the B.C. jobs plan and to promote her strategy for exporting LNG to Asia.
Clark will be going to Ottawa with her chief of staff, Ken Boessenkool, and is expected to also meet with some federal counterparts on official government business….
