As veteran Liberal Scott Simms bows out, here's what his election loss says about a shift in rural politics
CBC
Being a private citizen will take some getting used to for Scott Simms.
"It's a whole different experience at this point, after 17 years of being in public life," the former MP for Coast of Bays-Central-Notre Dame said.
Second place isn't familiar either; for those 17 years, Simms won every federal election he ran in, a streak the envy of any political career.
But that came to an end officially on Friday, when Conservative Clifford Small was declared the riding's winner by 264 votes after days of mail-in ballot counting. Simms saw the writing on the wall election night Tuesday, and had spent the days between preparing for a new life and reflecting on the loss.
"People wanted change," he told CBC News in his first interview since being ousted, in which he congratulated Small for the work he put into his successful campaign.
People wanted change, and they too were changing, Simms said, noticing a difference in his door-knocking since his first time around in 2004.
"The anger level and the anxiety level was higher than in past campaigns," he said.
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