Former Conservative interim leader and longtime Manitoba member of Parliament Candice Bergen announced Wednesday she is stepping down.
Bergen said in a video posted to Twitter that she submitted a letter of resignation as the representative for Portage-Lisgar after meeting with her party’s caucus.
“I won’t be going back into the House of Commons, I’m not really one for long goodbyes,” she said in the video.
She also thanked her family and colleagues in Ottawa, “regardless of your political stripe.”
The MP said last September, after serving as interim party leader following Erin O’Toole’s ouster, that she was not planning to run in another federal election….