Former PC official Ken Lee, who opposes vaccine requirements, enters race for premier
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A former Progressive Conservative party official who opposes vaccination requirements to enter businesses or work in government jobs has entered the race to become the party's next leader and Manitoba's premier.
Ken Lee, a chartered accountant who oversaw the selection of Brian Pallister as the party's leader in 2012, is himself poised to succeed Pallister when PC members choose a new leader on Oct. 30.
Lee is a former Manitoba PC chief financial officer who headed up the party's leadership selection process in 2011 and 2012. He claims authorship of the party's one-member, one-vote leadership-selection mechanism, along with former PC MLA Clayton Manness.
Lee also ran former city councillor Gord Steeves' unsuccessful campaign for mayor of Winnipeg in 2014 and PC MLA Janice Morley-Lecomte's two successful campaigns in the provincial Seine River constituency in 2016 and 2019.
On his campaign website, he describes himself as a proponent of "common sense conservatism" and espouses libertarian ideals.
"I have no governing experience as such. I have no political machine. I have no great profile. Not yet, at least! What I do have is a lifetime of common sense involvement and values. Period," Lee states in his biography.
"My view these days makes me think that PC stands for political correctness, less for progressive conservative."
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