People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier plans to run in an upcoming byelection for a federal seat in Portage-Lisgar, Manitoba, the same riding as former interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen.
Bernier, a former Conservative cabinet minister, will announce the decision on May 12.
Back in 2021, Bergen won 50 percent of the vote in the riding, while the People’s Party of Canada candidate came in second with 22 percent.
Bernier will be running against Bergen’s former campaign manager Branden Leslie, who won the nomination to run under the Conservative banner. The Conservatives have held the riding since 2004.
Bernier had said previously that he was considering running in one of three ridings; Portage-Lisgar, his former riding of Beauce in Quebec, and the Northern Ontario community of Timmins-James Bay….