Mon Mar 20, 2023 – 5:00 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – People’s Party (PPC) of Canada leader Maxime Bernier is looking to run as a candidate in an upcoming byelection taking place in a Manitoba riding held for years by former interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) Candice Bergen.
Bernier’s spokesman, Martin Masse, confirmed with LifeSiteNews last week that he is “considering running in the Portage-Lisgar by-election.”
“He has made a definitive decision not to run again in Beauce after two failures to get re-elected, and is looking for another riding,” Masse said.
Bernier is also considering running in the Timmins riding in northern Ontario.
Masse told LifeSiteNews that Bernier will announce his decision “sometime in the spring.”
Bernier said in comments sent to LifeSiteNews that he “loves” the Portage-Lisgar area and “feels very much at home” there.
“There is also a substantial francophone community in this area,” he said.
In the 2021 federal election, the local PPC candidate for Portage-Lisgar, Solomon Wiebe, had the best results of any PPC candidate in the country.
Masse noted that Wieber garnered 22 percent of the vote. However, he was up against the popular Bergen.
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