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Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative party has officially named Mark Custance as its candidate in Turtle Mountain for the next general election.
Custance, a councillor in the Municipality of Two Borders and a farmer in the Pierson area, said he is running to give people a reason to stay and live in the rural riding.
“My focus is to give people stronger reasons to stay here in Turtle Mountain — where they know that they’re going to be safe, that they’re going to get the health care they need when they need it, that their business can thrive and that they’re able to build a life and raise their family,” Custance said in a party press release on Friday.
Mark Custance, a councillor in the Municipality of Two Borders and a farmer in the Pierson area, is the Progressive Conservative candidate for Turtle Mountain in the next provincial election. (Weichen Zhang/The Brandon Sun files)
Custance will face NDP candidate Rick Pauls, the former mayor of the Municipality of Killarney-Turtle Mountain.
The PCs’ sitting MLA for the riding, Doyle Piwniuk, announced in November that he will be leaving politics at the end of his term.
The next general election is slated for no later than Oct. 5, 2027.
Custance, who announced his intentions to seek the party’s nomination in March, was originally slated to face businessman Wally Daudrich for the position.
Last month, with just over a week before the nomination meeting, the PCs announced that Daudrich wouldn’t be allowed to run for the party because he didn’t meet certain requirements in the vetting process.
Daudrich denied that the party’s explanation and reasoning was true and said he would appeal the decision not to let him run.
He has since decided to run for the Keystone Party in a provincial byelection later this month in The Pas-Kameesak.
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