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CALGARY — Rob Anders, the federal Conservative MP, refuses to say die.

Thursday, the true-blue “movement Conservative” said he planned to seek the nomination for the new Bow River constituency, a swath of prairie just east of Calgary.

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In April, he lost the nomination battle for the recently re-distributed riding of Calgary Signal Hill.

Mr. Anders admits it was hard to be defeated by Ron Liepert, a former provincial finance minister. For a time, he even thought of leaving politics.

“I also considered third-party advocacy. I was approached by a couple of oil companies,” he said.

However, he says politics is the best way to work on the issues he cares about, such as crime, gun rights and family values.

And he believes he will be a better fit in rural Bow River than in an urban Calgary that seems to be ever more accommodating to progressives.

“I really feel that [Bow River] is the Alberta I moved to in the 1980s,” he said.