Wayne Ewasko | |
Office: | Leader of the Opposition in Manitoba |
Term Start: | January 18, 2024 |
Predecessor: | Heather Stefanson |
Office1: | Interim Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba |
Term Start1: | January 18, 2024 |
Predecessor1: | Heather Stefanson |
Office2: | Minister of Education and Early Childhood Learning |
Term Start2: | January 18, 2022 |
Term End2: | October 18, 2023 |
Premier2: | Heather Stefanson |
Predecessor2: | Cliff Cullen |
Successor2: | Nello Altomare |
Office3: | Minister of Advanced Education, Skills, and Immigration |
Term Start3: | January 5, 2021 |
Term End3: | January 18, 2022 |
Premier3: | Brian Pallister Kelvin Goertzen Heather Stefanson |
Predecessor3: | Portfolio Created |
Successor3: | Jon Reyes |
Office4: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Lac du Bonnet |
Term Start4: | October 4, 2011 |
Predecessor4: | Gerald Hawranik |
Party: | Progressive Conservative |
Wayne Ewasko is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 2011 election.[1]
He represents the electoral district of Lac du Bonnet as a member of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party caucus.[2] He was re-elected in the 2016, 2019, and 2023 provincial elections. He served in the cabinets of Brian Pallister, Kelvin Goertzen and Heather Stefanson as the Minister of Advanced Education, Skills, and Immigration from 2021 to 2022 and then as Minister of Education and Early Childhood Learning from 2022 until the PC government's defeat in the 2023 Manitoba general election.
On October 24, 2023, he was appointed as the Shadow Minister for Education and Early Childhood Learning. On January 18, 2024, he was named interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party following the resignation of Heather Stefanson.[3]
Ewasko is noteworthy as both a politician and a curler having previously been to the 2006, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2017 provincial championships.[4]