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Job One for the Progressive Conservative party’s new star candidate is proving that she belongs in the riding she wants to represent, so Caroline Mulroney is talking to reporters only in York-Simcoe for at least the next month, her spokeswoman said Thursday.

“Caroline is busy in the riding meeting with community members and selling memberships,” Rebecca Grundy said. “As you know, this is what wins nominations and that is her sole focus so that she can be the PC Candidate for York-Simcoe.”

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By email and on the phone, Grundy was chatty and helpful. The candidate herself will remain under a York-Simcoe-sized bushel for a bit.

Mulroney has degrees from Harvard and New York University and she’s a lawyer who’s made her career in investment banking. At 43 she’s not a titan of finance, perhaps, but she brings Bay Street credibility, international experience and a bit of glamour to a party whose caucus is dominated by people whose résumés are more likely to include words like “reeve” than “Esq.” She co-founded a charity with her three brothers’ wives called the Shoebox Project, which donates kits of toiletries and similar essentials to women staying in shelters.