Political fur flies over ‘broken promise’
The NDP candidate running to fill Prince Albert Carlton MLA Darryl Hickie’s seat in the next provincial election is calling Hickie’s early departure a “broken promise.”
“And it’s a flip-flop, which has become, you know, something very typical,” Shayne Lazarowich said on Wednesday.
On Feb. 13, Hickie announced he would be resigning on March 9, well ahead of his original plan to leave politics at the end of his current term. Hickie plans to return to his career with the Prince Albert Police Service, where he will be an eight-year constable.
In his original statement last April about his decision not to seek re-election, he said: