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It turns out politicians are like you and me after all. “I’m going to have to go and buy a car,” said Diane Finley, the former Public Works minister, when I ask what’s new.

Life for many senior Conservatives, most recently viewed from the back seat of a chauffeur driven car, is about to change.

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Stephen Harper resigned in typically cryptic fashion on election night, forgetting to mention he was stepping down in his concession speech. We only know the man who bestrode Canadian politics like a colossus is leaving because the party’s national council sent out a release saying it will ask the caucus to vote for an interim leader, while it organizes a leadership race.

Finley’s name has been bandied around as a potential interim leader, as one of only four surviving members of Harper’s original Cabinet. She says it’s too early to make any decisions.

That is standard line from those considered to be potential candidates to run for the now permanent leadership.