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“I’m not running federally,” insisted re-elected Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall in his post-victory press conference before the question was even posed.

He said he doesn’t know what he’ll be doing in four years, but “I ran for the term.”

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However, circumstances change.

One former Conservative staffer remembers working in Ottawa in 1998, when federal Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest said he would never leave the capital to become Quebec Liberal party leader and take on the Parti Québécois.

As we know, Charest eventually buckled to the public and political pressure to respond to the call for a strong federalist leader in Quebec City.

The suggestion among a number of influential Conservatives is that now that the Saskatchewan election is out of the way, there will be intense pressure placed upon the premier to toss his hat in the ring for the 2017 leadership vote.

An informal Draft Wall campaign has formed. It will tell him that there is a team ready to run his bid, that money is available and that research among delegates suggests he is seen as the only candidate who can save Canada from prolonged Liberal rule.