MP-elect Corey Hogan hoped for more Liberals in Calgary

Bill Graveland · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 5:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Corey Hogan was bleary-eyed and a small tense the time aft winning the lone Liberal spot successful Calgary.

Hogan, who was named a replacement campaigner successful Calgary Confederation a week into the campaign, said helium has nary thought what he's expected to bash adjacent arsenic a caller subordinate of Parliament.

"I americium the cervid successful the headlights," Hogan joked Tuesday successful an interrogation with The Canadian Press. "I refused to look up thing astir the nuts and bolts of being an MP retired of superstition, truthful past nighttime I'm sitting determination astatine 2 successful the greeting Googling 'How bash you get sworn successful arsenic an MP?'

"What's the process? When americium I expected to spell to Ottawa? Am I waiting for a telephone telephone from somebody?"

Hogan was brought into Calgary Confederation aft the erstwhile campaigner was removed from the ballot. Thomas Keeper was moving for the Liberals, but his sanction was removed amid reports of an aged home battle complaint that was stayed but not disclosed to the party.

Hogan, 43, has been a lifelong Liberal and was erstwhile the enforcement manager of the Alberta Liberal Party.

He was a lawman curate nether erstwhile NDP premier Rachel Notley and erstwhile UCP premier Jason Kenney. Hogan is presently the vice-president of communications and outreach astatine the University of Calgary.

Hogan said helium has an extended inheritance moving successful the lipid and state assemblage and that determination wasn't a large pipeline task successful the past 15 years that helium wasn't progressive in, specified arsenic Northern Gateway, Energy East, TMX and KXL to a lesser extent.

He said it's disappointing that helium was the lone Liberal elected successful Calgary but added the fashionable ballot for the enactment has accrued up to 27 per cent, truthful helium believes thing is happening beneath the surface.

"I'm a small bummed out," helium said. "I was looking guardant to having a fewer colleagues wherever we would stock flights to Ottawa.

"On the different hand, much radical voted for the Liberal enactment successful Alberta this twelvemonth than immoderate twelvemonth since 1968."

Mount Royal University governmental subject prof Lori Williams said Hogan brings a batch to the array and expects helium could beryllium offered a furniture presumption by Prime Minister Mark Carney.

"He's worked with Liberals and Conservatives and he's an Albertan and he's got a batch of strategical insights. I deliberation helium could beryllium portion of Carney's outreach to Alberta," she said.

"Even the folks present who voted Liberal, galore of them privation a stronger dependable successful the national authorities and they privation to beryllium treated reasonably and that's conscionable a world that needs to beryllium dealt with."

Hogan said he's not lobbying for cabinet.

"I'm focused close present connected being the champion MP for Calgary Confederation that I tin be," helium said. "If the premier curate has an expanded relation for me, that's great.

"Put maine successful coach, but I'm not looking for thing else."