It would be understating matters to say I had a front-row seat for the rise of the Reform party. Even before my time at AR, helping the Byfields terrify and confuse Central Canada as a full-time job, I happened to live in the Beaver River riding where the amazing Deb Grey made her meteoric impact in a 1989 byelection. (I was a couple months short of being eligible to vote.) Later, while at AR, I was on the outer rim of Reform social circles, and I was privy to important editorial-board bull sessions about, among other things, the emergent 2000 Clarity Act and the leadership candidacy of Stephen Harper. I may carry molecules of personal blame for some of subsequent Canadian history; only God could know.
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