Return To Municipal Politics
Mark announced in June 2009 that he would not seek re-election in the next federal election, which was held on May 2, 2011. He subsequently announced on August 16, 2010 that he would step down as an MP on September 15 to campaign for another term as mayor of Dauphin. However, he lost narrowly to Eric Irwin.
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Famous quotes containing the words return to, return, municipal and/or politics:
“I thought to myself that it was still another Sunday gone by, that Mother was now buried, that I was going to return to work and that, after all, nothing had changed.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I’m not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn’t know how to return the treatment.”
—Malcolm X (1925–1965)
“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”
—Alfred E. Smith (1873–1944)
“The newspaper reader says: this party is destroying itself through such mistakes. My higher politics says: a party that makes such mistakes is finished—it has lost its instinctive sureness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)