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Manitoba Liberal Party leader Dougald Lamont had a lot to say in his year-end interview with the Winnipeg Sun.

Here are a couple highlight’s from the rookie party leader’s chat:

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How do you make those door-to-door meetings with people meaningful?

“Part of it is to just to say, ‘Look, it doesn’t matter to me who you voted for in the past.’ And it doesn’t even matter to me if you’re PC, NDP, Green, any of the above. I’m willing to talk to you. We really want to commit to governing for everybody, because as premier, you’re premier for every single Manitoba. Part of that is saying that and then trying to live that and demonstrate that through our actions.”

Has the federal Liberal party, federally, helped or hindered the Liberal party here provincially?

“It’s a little of both. You have people who love what the federal Liberals are doing and people who don’t. We are our own party, we come up with our own policy, we work together with the federal Liberals — we’re still cousins — but we make our own decisions. We will stand up and disagree with them when it matters.”