James Moore

Police chief with Winnipeg Police.

Tough, smart, really aggressive, and comes into politics, gets elected in 2011.

She was my parliamentary secretary when I was official languages minister.

That's why I know some of her story background.

And then along her term in Parliament, she got to be Parliamentary Secretary to Jim Flaherty at Finance.

Well, this is great.

You know, she got to learn from a great finance minister and a great cabinet colleague.

She really enjoyed that experience and learned a lot.

And then she was elevated and she became Heritage Minister when I went from Heritage to Industry Minister.

And so I got to know her really well because I helped her sort of port over the files and get to know some of the stakeholders, all that.

Then she got to the end of her term and she decided not to run for re-election.

I think she was elected in November.

in 11, not 08, but in any event.

But she was a borderline rotting.

We win government, we win the rotting, we lose government, we lose the rotting.

And then she became Minister of Heritage and she enjoyed the portfolio to a point.

And then eventually she decided she wanted to leave politics.

And it wasn't because of polls.

It wasn't because we were on the bubble.

She might've been competitive in the next game.