Former Winnipeg MP, Tory leadership hopeful calls for new conservative party in Manitoba – Winnipeg [Video]

The former Member of Parliament for St. Boniface says she’s part of a group that wants to form a new conservative political party in Manitoba.

Shelly Glover, a former Winnipeg police officer who served as a Conservative MP from 2008 to 2015, most recently threw her hat into the political ring in 2021, when she ran for leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservatives — narrowly losing to eventual premier Heather Stefanson.

Despite her run for the PCs’ top job, Glover told 680 CJOB’s Connecting Winnipeg that she and her group are now done with that party.

“We believe very strongly that the PC party has lost their way,” she said.

“Fiscal irresponsibility, lack of foundational philosophies related to grassroots members having a voice, health care decisions in the past, families first principles… landfill search insensitivity.”

The PCs — who are currently undergoing a leadership race to select a replacement for Stefanson — …