One of Manitoba’s longest-serving legislature members who has been speaker for the last several years says she will not run for office again
Another Manitoba Progressive Conservative has announced they will not seek re-election.
Myrna Driedger, one of the longest-serving legislature members who has been speaker for the last several years, says she will not run for office again in the election slated for Oct. 3.She has represented an area of west Winnipeg since 1998, acted as health critic in Opposition, and was chosen as speaker after the Tories took office in 2016.
She joins several other Tories who have recently announced plans to leave politics, including cabinet ministers Eileen Clarke, Cliff Cullen and Alan Lagimodiere.“I developed a deep commitment to addressing this deficit through my provincial, national and international positions with the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association,” Driedger wrote in a statement on her website.
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