Ex-senator Runciman won't seek Tory nomination in Leeds-Grenville

Bob Runciman will not seek the Conservative nomination to run in the byelection to succeed the late Gord Brown as member of Parliament.
In a statement Wednesday, the former senator and longtime MPP said it would have been an “honour and a  privilege” to serve out the rest of the parliamentary term of Brown, whom he described as a friend and political partner, but that he wasn’t prepared to engage in a “potentially divisive” nomination battle.
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