While neatly escaping the deadly wind chill warnings at home, Doer signed an agreement with the Philippines government to work together on ways to streamline the immigration process and also gave a keynote address at an international climate change conference in Adelaide, Australia. [...] Gerrard - arguably the hardest working MLA in the Legislature - will trudge across the frozen tundra in the weeks leading up to the Winnipeg convention to gather ideas for what amounts to his version of former prime minister Jean Chretien's Red Book.

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