Federal Cabinet Minister: Public Safety Minister Vic Toews

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews: Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced Monday, in the leadup to an anticipated cabinet shuffle, that he was resigning as MP for the Manitoba riding of Provencher effective Tuesday. Related Items Columns Who will replace Vic Toews as Manitoba's regional minister? Reports of Toews' exit premature? , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Toews, 60, was first elected to the House of Commons in 2000 under the banner of the Canadian Alliance and was re-elected four times. In the last federal election in 2011, he won the seat for the Conservatives with just over 70 per cent of the vote. STEINBACH, Man. - A federal cabinet minister who suggested his opponents were allies of child pornographers and saw details of his sordid divorce on social media while he argued for increased Internet surveillance is leaving public life. "I am leaving public life in order to focus on my family and to pursue opportunities in the private sector," Toews said in a news release. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.