During this period, Borotsik surprised some political observers by declaring his support for the legalization of same-sex marriage.

Borotsik supported Belinda Stronach's decision to leave the Conservatives for the Liberals in 2005, and indicated that he would consider running for either the Liberal Party of Canada or the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba at some time in the future.

In the early months following the merger, MP Rick Borotsik, who had been elected as Manitoba's only PC, became openly critical of the new party's leadership.

Prentice was defeated by Peter MacKay on the final ballot of the party's 2003 leadership convention ; Borotsik resigned as party whip, but remained Agriculture Critic.

Borotsik sought the provincial PC party's nomination for Brandon West in the buildup to the 1986 provincial election, but lost to Jim McCrae.

Borotsik was his party's only elected representative from western Canada.

Borotsik ultimately chose to sit with the merged Conservative Party of Canada until the next election, but made no secret of his opposition to Stephen Harper and the new party's social conservatism.

Smith was narrowly defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Rick Borotsik, a popular former mayor, in the 2007 provincial election.

Borotsik was born to a Ukrainian family in Brandon, was raised in that city, and graduated from Brandon University in 1971.

Borotsik was an employee of the shopping-centre firm Bramalea Inc. during the 1980s.

A colourful and bombastic figure, Borotsik was elected on a platform of aggressive municipal development and became known for his efforts to promote the city.

Borotsik was a strong supporter of party leader Jean Charest, and was considered a star candidate.

Borotsik was subsequently chosen as national caucus chairman, and endorsed Joe Clark's successful bid to succeed Charest as leader.

Borotsik was also an opponent of the United Alternative, a Reform-sponsored drive for a new political party that resulted in the creation of the Canadian Alliance.

There was speculation that Borotsik would seek the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba in 2000, but he declined.

Borotsik was narrowly re-elected in the 2000 federal election over a candidate of the Canadian Alliance, as the Liberals won a third consecutive majority government nationally.

Borotsik was subsequently named as party whip and Critic for Agriculture, Indian Affairs and the Canadian Wheat Board.

Borotsik strongly opposed this decision, and said that he would not be a candidate for the merged party if Stephen Harper was chosen as its leader.

The New Democratic Party was re-elected to a third consecutive majority government in the 2007 election, and Borotsik entered the legislature as a member of the Official Opposition.

Note: Reports in the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper do not indicate if Borotsik was elected in Ward Three or Ward Four in the 1980 election.

Borotsik chose not to run in the 2004 general election.

Rick Borotsik joined the new party, but openly criticized it from within, did not run for re-election in 2004, and also publicly endorsed the Liberals over the Conservatives during the campaign.

Lukewarm endorsements of Liberal Party candidates at the onset of the campaign were extended by former Tory MPs Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney, André Bachand, Rick Borotsik, and former federal PC Party president Bruck Easton.

He planned to seek the PC nomination again for the 1997 election, but withdrew in favour of Brandon Mayor Rick Borotsik.

Rick Borotsik ( born September 8, 1950 ) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

Borotsik is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

Borotsik sought and won the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada's nomination for Brandon-Souris in the 1997 federal election.

Charest resigned as party leader in 1998, despite requests from Borotsik and other MPs that he remain in the position.

Borotsik opposed the Canadian gun registry, which he described as unworkable.

Borotsik took part in preliminary discussions between the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance in early 2001.

No agreements were reached, and Borotsik later called for disgruntled Canadian Alliance members to rejoin the Progressive Conservative Party.

The threat of effective anti-trust action, provoked by `` gouging the public '' through price increases not justified by cost increases, and fears of endangering relations with customers, Congress, the general public and the press, all operate to keep price increases in some relation to cost increases.

Recreating the fyrd into a standing army, ringing Wessex with some thirty garrisoned fortified towns, and constructing new and larger ships for the royal fleet were costly endeavours that provoked resistance from noble and peasant alike.

The opening of the tomb provoked considerable concern among some sectors of Portuguese society and IPPAR – Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico ( Portuguese State Agency for Architectural Patrimony ).

His controversial works provoked many replies, and were studied for some decades after his death.

In this regard, Grierson's definition of documentary as " creative treatment of actuality " has gained some acceptance, with this position at variance with Soviet film-maker Dziga Vertov's provocation to present " life as it is " ( that is, life filmed surreptitiously ) and " life caught unawares " ( life provoked or surprised by the camera ).

It provoked the publication of several interdisciplinary books representing the environmental point of view, as well as some in popular science.

Adams's finding provoked a sharp astronomical controversy that lasted some years, but the correctness of his result, agreed by other mathematical astronomers including C E Delaunay, was eventually accepted.

Most American reviewers accepted the authenticity of the narrative, though it provoked disbelief among some British readers.

Despite economic growth during Lacalle's term, adjustment and privatization efforts provoked political opposition, and some reforms were overturned by referendum.

This proposition has provoked heavy criticism from south European countries, which often distill used mash from wine-making into spirits ; although higher quality mash is usually distilled into some variety of pomace brandy, lower-quality mash is better turned into neutral-flavored spirits instead.

Although it had the support of the Hollywood establishment, and received mostly positive reviews, its socio-political outlook provoked a negative reaction among some members of the public.

According to the Centre for Geopolitical Studies, the Russian information campaign which the centre characterises as a " real mud throwing " exercise, has provoked a split in Estonian society amongst Russian speakers, inciting some to riot over the relocation of the Bronze Soldier.

This is attributed to cultural reasons, some distrust of western medicine, and a controversial organ transplantation in 1968 that provoked a ban on cadaveric organ donation that would last thirty years.

The novel contains some fictionalized allusions to Islamic history, which provoked both controversy and outrage.

As the college later received credentials as a full university, the renamed Örebro University gave him an honorary PhD in medicine in February 2005, an award that provoked some controversy.

Whilst Frederick's seeming bloodless recovery of Jerusalem for the cross brought him great prestige in some European circles, his decision to complete the crusade while excommunicated provoked Church hostility.

This provoked Spain and a Spanish flotilla arrived some 5 weeks later and assumed control of San Marcos.

The idea that " God " and " Faith " are viruses of the mind has provoked some hostile criticism, including John Bowker's 1992 – 1993 Gresham College lectures, in which he suggests that Dawkins ' " account of religious motivation ... is ... far removed from evidence and data " and that, even if the God-meme approach were valid, " it does not give rise to one set of consequences ... Out of the many behaviours it produces, why are we required to isolate only those that might be regarded as diseased?

Decentralization in Ocean Hill – Brownsville led to the firing of some white teachers and administrators, which provoked a city-wide teachers ' strike led by the United Federation of Teachers.

It is important to note here that in some cases, some early Christians provoked persecution on purpose so as to suffer, be persecuted, tortured and die, thus seeking to become martyrs of the faith, a practise that it is in no way endorsed by the Bible.

When he was eleven, some of Haakon's friends provoked the king by asking him to give Haakon a region to govern.

It provoked some critical comment from the local newspaper, which complained that the composer put his listeners on a bus and shuttled them from one Parisian night-spot to another, " but he does not let us hear the tuneful gypsy melodies in the boulevard cafés, always just cymbals and tambourine and mostly from two cabarets at the same time at that ".

Although some of Arbus's photographs have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction, Arbus's work has provoked controversy ; for example, Norman Mailer was quoted in 1971 as saying " Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

It provoked some hostility, too, mostly on the side of classical analysts ; they approved of rigour but not of high abstraction.