WINNIPEG – After battling evil cyborgs, predatory aliens and California budget hearings, Arnold Schwarzenegger may be about to face his toughest environment yet: a Winnipeg winter.
The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce is working on a plan to bring the 63-year-old actor-turned-politician to the Manitoba capital for a fundraising event in the coming weeks, several sources have confirmed.
The two-term Republican governor, who could not run for a third stint in California due to term limits, will be succeeded by Democrat Jerry Brown on Jan. 3, 2011.
It’s expected the visit would coincide with a visit by former Manitoba premier Gary Doer, now Canada’s ambassador to the United States, who developed a relationship with Schwarzenegger during the last decade.
In 2006, Doer and Schwarzenegger signed a memorandum of understand about reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. Doer visited Schwarzenegger again in California in 2009 and after stepping down as Manitoba’s premier, hosted the governor at the Canadian embassy in Washington earlier this year.
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