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Wherever you look, there’s Liberals in charge of almost everything.

At Parliament Hill, at Queen’s Park, in essence at City Hall, and in the corporate and social media. Even conservatives running for federal and provincial leadership positions these days seem to be Liberal-light.

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And then there’s Brad Trost.

Brad who?

The likable and engaging 42-year-old federal Conservative from Saskatchewan wears anonymity like a badge of honour.

“I was a Conservative backbencher from Saskatchewan in Stephen Harper’s government who kept my nose in my own riding,” he said. “As a government we did a good job.”

But he was not prepared to alter his values for a cabinet post and become a household name — which he is now poised to become.

“I am who I am,” he said in an interview Wednesday.

Who is he?

Trained as a geophysicist, he’s the guy who stood up to Harper and cabinet on such issues as abortion and same-sex marriage.