Kieron Testart
Kieron Testart | |
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories for Kam Lake | |
| In office November 23, 2015 – September 2, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Dave Ramsay |
| Succeeded by | Caitlin Cleveland |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | non-partisan consensus government |
| Residence(s) | Yellowknife, Northwest Territories |
Kieron Testart is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories in the 2015 election.[1] He represented the electoral district of Kam Lake until the 2019 election, when he was defeated by Caitlin Cleveland.
An employee of the territorial Department of Justice, Testart was a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada nomination for Northwest Territories in the 2015 federal election, but withdrew from the race to endorse Michael McLeod.[2]
In 2018, Testart introduced an amendment to the territorial Elections Act to permit the introduction of party politics in the legislative assembly,[3] but his motion received no support from other MLAs and was dropped.[4] In 2019, he planned to organize a group of ideologically aligned MLA candidates in the 2019 Northwest Territories general election into a "Liberal Democratic" slate,[5] but backed off of the plan after it was leaked to the press.[6]
References
- ^ "N.W.T. votes 2015 | Yellowknifers opt for change". CBC North, November 23, 2015.
- ^ "Kieron Testart drops out of N.W.T. Liberal race, supports Michael McLeod". CBC North, July 30, 2015.
- ^ "N.W.T. MLA will introduce bill to allow political parties, scrap consensus gov't". CBC News, October 25, 2018.
- ^ "Zero support from MLAs for motion to introduce party politics in N.W.T.". CBC North, October 30, 2018.
- ^ Richard Gleeson, "Leaked document shows N.W.T. MLA leading push for party politics". CBC North, March 5, 2019.
- ^ Randi Beers, "N.W.T. MLA steps back from move toward party politics". CBC North, August 9, 2019.
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