People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier to run in Manitoba beyelection
PPC candidate came in second in Portage-Lisgar in the 2021 election, earned 22 per cent of the vote
Bernier, a former cabinet minister who quit the Conservative caucus in 2018 to found the party, will make an official announcement in Portage la Prairie on Friday.
The riding of Portage-Lisgar was held previously by longtime Conservative MP Candice Bergen, who served as the party's interim leader last year and stepped down in February.
Bernier has said he was considering running for the seat, in part because it is in a rural area with a large francophone community.
Bergen easily won the riding in 2021, winning over 50 per cent of the vote. The People's Party of Canada candidate came in second with 22 per cent.
When reached by CBC, PPC spokesperson Martin Masse wouldn't confirm Bernier's candidacy, but said it was a "strong possibility."
"It's a riding with obviously a lot of voters who share the PPC's conservative, libertarian and populist approach to politics, and one where we have the best potential to elect a member of Parliament," Masses said in an email.
"The confirmation should come on Friday," he said.
Bernier will be up against Bergen's former campaign manager Branden Leslie, who won the nomination to run under the Conservative banner.
With files from The Canadian Press
If the Conservatives win the most seats, but not enough for a majority, it will be interesting to see if the Liberals and NDP attempt to retain power, assume between the two of them (and maybe the Greens) they win at least 170 seats. Under Canadian law and tradition, the Liberals would be allowed the first opportunity to from a government, even if the Conservatives win more seats.
Doing so would, of course, could prove highly unpopular, which is why Paul Martin declined this option back in 2006.
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Trial Court Chief Justice Paula Carey Announces Retirement
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BOSTON, MA— The Honorable Paula M. Carey, Chief Justice of the Trial Court, announced today that she would retire from the Trial Court in January 2022. Chief Justice Carey was appointed to a five-year term by the Supreme Judicial Court, which she began on July 16, 2013, and reappointed to a second term in 2018 pursuant to G. L. 211B, §6.
On behalf of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, Chief Justice Kimberly Budd said: “Chief Justice Carey is passionate about delivering justice to the people in the Commonwealth. With unflagging energy, she has worked to improve access to justice, and diversity, equity, and inclusion for all who work in and use our courts. She has shepherded the Trial Court through many advancements and steered the departments through the pandemic with perseverance and determination. With her energy and leadership, Chief Justice Carey has made an indelible mark on the judiciary, and all of us in the courts, the bar and the Commonwealth owe her a large debt of gratitude.”
The Chief Justice of the Trial Court is the policy and judicial head of the Trial Court, which includes the Boston Municipal, District, Housing, Juvenile, Land, Probate and Family, and Superior Courts, the Office of the Commissioner of Probation, and the Office of Jury Commissioner. The Chief Justice of the Trial Court has authority over all matters of judicial policy and appoints the departmental chief justices, oversees case flow management and the establishment of programs and procedures to continuously improve access to justice by all segments of the Commonwealth's population. The Chief Justice partners with the Court Administrator to oversee all administrative aspects of the Trial Court comprised of 385 judges, 6300 staff, a $779.9 million budget and 97 courthouses.
“I have absolutely loved my work with the Massachusetts Trial Court, first as a judge, then as the Chief Justice of the Probate and Family Court Department, and as Chief Justice of the Trial Court,” said Chief Justice Carey. “I continue to have the same passions I have always had and will continue to work towards racial equity and access to justice for all. Retirement for me is not an ending, but the beginning of a different life committed to the same principles, just in a different way that permits me to attend to the imminent needs of my loved ones.”
As Chief Justice of the Trial Court, the Hon. Paula Carey created the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Experience in 2018 to impact policy, awareness, and training. She built strong partnerships with the Executive Branch to ensure the success of major systemic improvements, including the recent Eviction Diversion Initiative, a comprehensive set of resources to support tenants and landlords during the financial challenges caused by the pandemic. She also held a leadership role in the development of a data-driven justice reinvestment approach to reduce reoffending, contain corrections spending and invest in strategies to increase public safety.
Within the Trial Court she formed a Language Access Advisory Committee to create a comprehensive language access plan to enhance access to justice; significantly increased collaboration across Trial Court departments to create consistent policies and practices to better serve the Bar and the public; and expanded judicial mentoring and leadership development. As Chief Justice of the Probate and Family Court, she oversaw the complex implementation of the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code.
Prior to her initial appointment as Chief Justice of the Trial Court in May of 2013, Chief Justice Carey had served as Chief Justice of the Probate and Family Court since 2007. She was first appointed to the Probate and Family Court in 2001 as a circuit judge and then served as an associate justice in Norfolk County.
Chief Justice Carey received the Boston Bar Association’s Haskell Cohn Distinguished Judicial Service Award in 2011, as well as the Freedman Award from the Massachusetts chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the MCLE Scholar-Mentor Award, and the Middlesex Bar Association's Distinguished Jurist Award. She is also a past recipient of the Massachusetts Association of Women Lawyers Distinguished Jurist Award, the Daniel F. Toomey Excellence in Judiciary Award, and the Massachusetts Judges Conference Probate and Family Court Judicial Excellence Award.
Prior to her appointment as a judge, she co-founded the firm Carey and Mooney PC, a family law practice. While in private practice, she chaired the Family Law Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association and served on the Family Law Steering Committee of the Boston Bar Association. Chief Justice Carey graduated magna cum laude from New England Law | Boston.
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Massachusetts court allows release of 1991 Romney testimony
CANTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Testimony by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in connection with the divorce of Staples Inc founder Tom Stemberg two decades ago can be made public, a state court judge ruled on Thursday.
Romney provided testimony in 1991 on behalf of Stemberg, who was battling a post-divorce lawsuit.
The court did not immediately release the documents - two inch-thick bundles of paper - leaving that to attorneys for Maureen Sullivan Stemberg, the ex-wife of Stemberg. She has disputed Romney’s description of the value of the company, according to a film-maker who interviewed her.
Sullivan Stemberg’s attorney, Gloria Allred, told reporters her office would release the testimony later on Thursday after it finished editing it to limit it to Romney’s remarks. All papers related to the case have been impounded by the court.
But Allred warned that, since the court had left in place an order that prevents either Sullivan Stemberg, Tom Stemberg or their attorneys from discussing details of the case, the June 1991 testimony may mean little to the general public.
The unsealing of documents comes less than two weeks before voters go to the polls in a presidential election in which Romney, a former Massachusetts Governor, is attempting to unseat President Barack Obama, a Democrat.
“Out of context, it is essentially meaningless to the public, and she can put it in context,” Allred said, referring to her client.
Tom Stemberg’s attorney, Brian Leary, told the court that the testimony - which Allred produced in court on Wednesday - amounted to a primer on private equity. When Romney testified, he was working with Bain Capital, an early investor in Staples.
Assistant Judicial Case Manager Jennifer Ulwick agreed to the release of the documents at the request of the Boston Globe newspaper, which argued that the confidentiality rules surrounding Romney’s testimony no longer applied now that he is a candidate for public office.
ROMNEY LAWYER DOES NOT OBJECT
Romney attorney Robert Jones said the candidate had no objection to the testimony being made public. Jones declined to comment to reporters after the hearing at Norfolk Probate & Family Court in Canton, Massachusetts, south of Boston.
Staples also raised no objections to the release.
At issue is how Romney described the value of Staples. An independent filmmaker who interviewed Sullivan Stemberg for an uncompleted movie project told Reuters on Wednesday that she felt he inaccurately described the value of the company.
Staples, which went public in 1989, was worth $264.4 million on June 26, 1991, the first day of Romney’s testimony.
Three months later, the stock price had climbed 26 percent to push its market value to $334.28 million on September 26, 1991. A year after Romney’s testimony, Staples was worth $507.1 million.
Tom Stemberg, who spoke in support of Romney at the Republican National Convention in Orlando in August, was not present for court proceedings.
Sullivan Stemberg was present, but in two days only responded “I do” to the judge when she was asked to swear to speak truthfully. Allred told reporters after the hearing that the confidentiality terms surrounding the divorce made it all but impossible for Sullivan Stemberg to comment.
“It’s the most comprehensive gag order I have ever seen in my 36 years of practicing law,” Allred said. “She apparently is the only person in the United States of America, maybe the world, who cannot speak about Governor Romney.”
Editing by Mary Milliken and David Storey
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In 2019 the Conservative Party ran what could only possibly be described as a "centrist" campaign platform under Andrew Scheer, and they finished a relatively distant second in terms of seat counts. In 2021, under Erin O'Toole, they ran on a decidedly left-of-centre platform. There is no reasonable way one could even describe it as "centrist" because it was very markedly left-of-centre by any reasonable measure. And the CPC finished just slightly worse than they did in 2019.
As much as people state they want a "centrist" party, the reality is that Canadians almost never vote for parties running on centrist platforms. We'll vote for parties running very right-leaning OR very left-leaning platforms, but when either the Liberals or the Conservatives try to run on a centrist platform they fail to win. You would have to go back to Chretien's 2000 election victory to find an exception to this rule.