Sheila Copps, whose second, faint-hope bid to win the Liberal crown limped to its predictable conclusion yesterday, seems almost cheerful about losing the national party leadership.

She professes indifference to the possibility of losing the profile, power and perks that go with being a cabinet minister, although some of her supporters haven't given up hope on that score.

But after three years in the Ontario legislature and 19 in the federal spotlight, the 50-year-old Canadian Heritage minister simply can't imagine life without politics.

"Hey, it's the most incredible way to help grow Canada," Copps enthused in a recent interview.

She rattles off a list of projects she's been working on in Hamilton: opening up the waterfront, restoring the decaying downtown, moving the historic HMCS Haida to Hamilton.

"All the work I'm doing there continues. Even as we speak, I was working yesterday on a proposal to get a submarine to Hamilton. So I never stop," she said, laughing at her determination to create what's been dubbed "Sheila's navy" in her hometown. Source.

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