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Former Ont. premier Ernie Eves quits politics
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| Last Edited | Monsieur Feb 01, 2005 07:58am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, February 1, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | After about 24 years on it, former Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Ernie Eves has stepped down off the province's elected political stage.
Eves, whose image trademarks were his slicked-back hair and expensive suits, announced from his Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey constituency office Monday night that he would be resigning as an MPP.
He told a crowd of about 50 people that he made the decision with "a great deal of sadness."
The move would open up a safe Tory seat that would allow John Tory -- who succeeded Eves as party leader and who attended the announcement -- to run in a by-election.
Tory -- a business executive and backroom strategist who took the party's reins last fall, defeating former finance minister Jim Flaherty -- had insisted he would have a seat by the spring sitting of the Ontario legislature. It begins Feb. 15.
Ontario politics watchers had expected Eves to step down before Christmas. That didn't happen.
"I can recall people becoming leaders of a party and not having a seat for a year or two years before they even thought about it," Eves told The Canadian Press in a Sept. 17 interview.
Eves, 58, had come out of political retirement to replace two-term premier Mike Harris in 2002. To do so, he left a high-powered banking job on Bay Street.
Eves was to provide a kinder, gentler alternative to the hard-right style of Harris. |
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