[ISL] "P.E.I. man goes door to door trying to become the next senator"

[rfmcdonald]

The Toronto Star carries this Canadian Press article about one Prince Edward Island man's efforts to campaign for a seat in the Senate.

Amidst the tourists in shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops strolling among Charlottetown’s heritage homes, Owen Parkhouse stands out in his tan business suit.

On a hot August morning, he is going door to door, campaigning to become Prince Edward Island’s next senator.

While there’s no election for the job, Parkhouse has spent nearly four weeks knocking on doors, confidently asking for signatures to help support his application for the job.

“I thought I’d go door to door and get some sense of the peoples’ reaction to the Senate. A lot of people don’t know what the Senate is all about,” Parkhouse said Tuesday as he knocked on doors near Charlottetown’s downtown waterfront, a few blocks from the spot where the Fathers of Confederation gathered in 1864 to create a new nation.

He has gathered more than 500 signatures to include with an application that must be submitted before the end of the day Thursday.