Helena Guergis: Will her political career recover?
- September 17, 2010 10:13 AM |
- By POV
The RCMP cleared MP Helena Guergis of criminal allegations this week. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
By CBC News
MP Helena Guergis says she will run as an "independent conservative" in the next federal election after being dropped as the official Conservative Party candidate in the central Ontario riding of Simcoe-Grey.
In an interview Thursday on CBC-TV's Power & Politics with Evan Solomon, Guergis insisted she is a conservative and "always will be" but said she feels her constituents have told her they want her as their representative in Ottawa.
Guergis now sits as an Independent MP after she resigned her junior cabinet post and was kicked out of the Conservative caucus by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in April, then removed as the Tory candidate in her riding.
In July, the RCMP cleared the former cabinet minister of unspecified allegations forwarded to the force by the prime minister.
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