A new website calling for Halifax to “draft” Peter Kelly in the run for mayor caught many off guard Tuesday – none more so than Kelly himself.

The website Draft Kelly launched on behalf of “citizens for Peter Kelly” Tuesday morning, to encourage his possible bid to run for Mayor Mike Savage’s current seat in the 2016 municipal election “because Halifax needs a mayor that will stand up for all Haligonians,” the site read.

“The phone calls and emails have come in and caught me totally off guard,” Kelly said from his municipal CAO office in Westlock County, Alta.

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