Kellie Leitch

: For Oliver, it was, according to Huffington Post Canada. At 75, Oliver might be forgiven if he was among the more than three dozen MPs not running run for re-election this fall, but he raring to go. "I'm ready to present myself to the people," Oliver said this week. " an extraordinary opportunity for me in the Finance portfolio to be able to contribute to Canadian society in a way which touches virtually every Canadian." Oliver was among a number of Toronto-area candidates with impressive private sector pedigrees who ran for the Conservatives in 2011, including Chris Alexander, a former Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan; and Kellie Leitch, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon. Their side-by-side appearance to announce billions for public transit in that city, complete with an almost-endorsement from Toronto mayor, had all the usual hallmarks of an election-campaign event. It was proof, the Conservatives said at the time, that their party had the chops to attract the cream of the private-sector crop. In the Toronto area — a key battleground come October — most of the incumbents are running again, leaving little room to recruit new stars. But more than two dozen Conservatives aren't running for re-election this time, including cabinet leaders like Peter Mac Kay and John Baird and relative newcomers like Shelly Glover, who had been considered a rising star, raising questions about where the party is looking to rebuild the capacity of its front bench. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.