Churchill businessman aims to rebuild PC party

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Manitoba businessman Walter Daudrich has tossed his hat into the ring of the Tory leadership race.

Daudrich, president of Lazy Bear Expeditions, a Churchill tour company, is the longest serving member of the Progressive Conservative Party’s board of directors and a former Conservative Party of Canada candidate. He said Tuesday he wants to rebuild the party.

“The PC Party of Manitoba has lost its way in recent years,” Daudrich said in a statement.

“It has been run more like an exclusive club, betraying its roots as the party of small government and sensible spending while alienating its members.

“One might say it has become Manitoba’s Liberal Party in all but name.”

Daudrich joins Tory MLA Obby Khan as the only leadership candidates so far. Khan announced last month he was running for the leadership vacated by former leader Heather Stefanson in the wake of last year’s election loss.

Candidates have until Oct. 15 to register. A new leader will be chosen at a convention on April 26.