Random things one learns while researching Wikipedia articles...

The Calgary Sun did snapshot profiles of all the Calgary candidates in the last provincial election. They can be found here. I find the responses to "political heroes" interesting. First of all, it seems like pretty well every P.C. candidate named Churchill, which isn't all that surprising I guess. A little more surprising is that four candidates in Calgary were willing to come out and name Pierre Trudeau as their political hero. These bold four came from three different parties, none of which were the Liberals: they were two New Democrats, a Green, and a Wildrose Alliance candidate (who also cited Ralph Klein and Peter Lougheed as among his heroes).