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Lifestyle News. Man earns Ph. Stefanson, the province's former health minister, was running against former Member of Parliament Shelly Glover, and won by a margin of fewer than votes. Stefanson said the focus moving forward is addressing the health-care backlogs that Manitoba has experienced during the pandemic and also rebuilding the economy. Stefanson will become Manitoba's first female premier once she is sworn in. She said she is ready to embrace that title and hopes her selection will encourage other women to get involved in politics.
She also curried the favour of Conservative MPs, government staffers, party elites and business leaders. Stefanson said addressing the surgical backlog in the health-care system and rebuilding the economy as two of her priorities. The historic nature of her selection as Manitoba's first female premier isn't lost on her. I've worked in other areas in my life where I've been the only woman around the table, so that's nothing new to me," Stefanson said.
Although Stefanson was the overwhelming choice of Tory opinion-leaders, she carries baggage as a stalwart supporter of Pallister's government, which became unpopular in large part due to its handling of the pandemic. Political opponents have wasted no time tying Stefanson to what they perceive as the party's past mistakes. Stefanson was health minister during the pandemic's disastrous third wave in the spring, during which Manitoba had to send patients out of province.
Meanwhile, Glover, her only opponent in the leadership race, ran as an outsider, promising to shake up the status quo. Glover, a former Conservative MP in Stephen Harper's government and Winnipeg police officer, was the underdog candidate from the beginning, but Thomas says she cherished her outsider status.
She argued the party has lost touch with Manitobans and warned if its approach didn't change, it risked losing power. With more than 16, ballots cast of a possible 25,, the return rate is "something to be proud of, not something to be ashamed of," George Orle, chair of the leadership election committee, said.
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