The Canadian Press
BRANTFORD, Ont.–The Liberal Speaker of Ontario’s legislature won’t run again for his Brant seat in next year’s election.
Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government has been struggling in the polls, but Dave Levac said today his decision is not an indictment of the party.
“My retirement from provincial politics is made knowing some will question or even use my announcement against my party and my leader,” he said.
“That would be unfortunate and wrong,” he noted. “Nothing could be further from the truth.
“Simply put, between my career as an educator and provincial politics, I will be in my 45th year of public service in 2018.”
Levac has been the legislature’s Speaker since 2011.
“Over the last six years, he has proven himself to be one of the most effective Speakers in modern history,” Wynne said in a statement.
“And when Dave retires at the end of this legislative session, he will have been the longest-serving Speaker in the history of the Ontario legislature,” she added.
