Four east coasters I am keeping an eye on:

Dominic LeBlanc, whose Dad was forner cabinet minister under PET, Senator and GG. Dominic ran for the lib. Leadership and gif his Masters of Law degree at Harvard.

Scot Brison, originally a PC, served as Minister of Public Works under Paul Martin and was Finance critic in opposition sibce 2010. He has an impressive international financial record. In givernment affairs.

Geoff Regan, a lawyer and former Fisheries Minister, son of a provincial Premier, who was also a cabinet minister in PETs government. His wife is the NS, Liberal, provincial Labour Minister.

Bill Casey, formerly a MP in the Harper government (a progressive) , who left the CPC over Harpers failure to honour a signed funding agreement with Nova Scotia, which gave him political "folk hero" status in Nova Scotia. He knocked off a major CPC candidate.