Labrador MHA Lela Evans leaving the NDP to return to PC caucus

Torngat Mountains MHA Lela Evans is leaving the Newfoundland and Labrador NDP caucus to rejoin the province's Official Opposition.

The move — announced at a news conference Tuesday morning at the provincial House of Assembly — is a return to the fold for Evans, who was first elected as a candidate for the PCs in 2019 and re-elected in 2021. Seven months after her re-election, she left the PC caucus to sit as an Independent before joining the NDP in March 2022.

Evans says her move to the PCs is about being under the leadership of Tony Wakeham, whom she called an ally and a friend.

"I want to play a part in making sure that the province gets an opportunity to select a good government that could actually help the province, and right now I don't see that with the Furey government." 

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