Borotsik chose not to run in the 2004 general election.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 provoked some controversy when he announced that he favoured an end to Manitoba's tuition freeze ; the party's official policy was to keep the freeze in place.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

He ultimately chose the former when a deal between the city, Hamilton County, and Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds ( who were seeking a replacement for the obsolete Crosley Field ) was struck that resulted in an agreement to build a multipurpose stadium which could host both baseball and football games.

Pitt chose instead to stalk Vancouver, ultimately assaulting him on a London street corner.

Hoover ultimately chose Commerce.

The codifiers ultimately chose the same dialects, but did so because they were " most widespread and most likely to be adopted by speakers of other dialects ".

After leaving the army he studied medicine and phrenology, but ultimately chose to become a stonecutter, making stone angels, saints, and tombstones.

Consequently, he was Rowling's first choice to direct Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 2000, but Warner Bros. ultimately chose Chris Columbus for the job.

* She dated Elvis Presley in the early 1970s and cared for him but could not handle his dependence on drugs and ultimately chose her boyfriend, film director Peter Bogdanovich, over Presley.

While most oil companies were switching to leaded gasolines en masse during the mid-to-late 1920s, American Oil chose to continue marketing its premium-grade " Amoco-Gas " ( later Amoco Super-Premium ) as a lead-free gasoline by using aromatics rather than tetraethyllead to increase octane levels, decades before the environmental movement of the early 1970s led to more stringent auto emission controls which ultimately mandated the universal phase out of leaded gasoline.

Napoleon ultimately chose divorce so he could remarry in search of an heir.

The city ultimately chose a proposal by Arcadd known as the " Crystal Palace ", a densely-packed glass multi-tower structure where some of the towers bend outward near the top under 20 stories with a larger retail and public space pavilion at the base.

Despite his deep respect for Gokhale, however, Gandhi would reject Gokhale's faith in western institutions as a means of achieving political reform and ultimately chose not to become a member of Gokhale's Servants of India Society.

Among the marriage offers she received was one from a Gentile whom she loved, but ultimately chose not to marry, on the account of her faith.

The BCS ultimately chose not to expel the Fiesta Bowl, instead fining the organization $ 1 million.

THSRC's winning bid for the THSR franchise was based on Eurotrain's technology and specifications, and THSRC granted Eurotrain the status of preferred bidder for the supply of the core system technology ; however, it ultimately chose TSC, citing " technology, price, finance and maintenance merits ".

However, he ultimately chose to return to Rhode Island and began work at the 903 Residences in Providence.

" He ultimately chose the Predators for their style of play emphasizing skating and speed.

One of these suppliers was ultimately the one that offered the film to Comedy Central, after which it found its way into a box of films sent to Frank Conniff in 1992, when he chose Manos as one of the films to be shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Douglas Company's contract ended in 1945 and though plans were proposed to build commercial aircraft, the company ultimately chose to concentrate production on the west coast.

He recommended a different route than the one which Louis ultimately chose, and he suggested that they not travel in a single coach, instead splitting up so that they would draw less attention en route.

He was one of several candidates for President at the 1928 Democratic National Convention, which ultimately chose Al Smith as nominee.

Houston became one of the USOC's bid finalists, but the organization chose New York City as its candidate city ; the Games ultimately were awarded to London by the IOC.

Bradley was heavily recruited by many colleges from across the country, but ultimately chose to play at Brigham Young University.

Ernest Vincent Wright, author of the 1939 novel Gadsby, famous for being written entirely in lipogram, was unable to find a publisher for his unusual work and ultimately chose to publish it through a vanity press.

However, pursuant to the Canada – US Free Trade Agreement, Canada chose to have the determination reviewed before a binational panel, which ultimately consisted of three Canadians and two Americans.

He initially announced the title on Twitter as Seeking Major Tom and later modified it to Searching for Major Tom, but ultimately chose to use the original title.