Retiring Conservative MP Len Webber makes good on promise to late wife
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Len Webber announced last month his retirement from politics, after 10 years as an Alberta legislature member and 11 years as the MP for Calgary Confederation.
It started with a promise Len Webber made to his wife in 2010, as her long battle with cancer came to its end.
They had fallen in love in the mid-1980s when they were both varsity athletes at Red Deer College in central Alberta.
Heather Macdonald-Webber was 47, and the couple had been married 23 years.
“She shed a tear knowing that she wasn’t able to donate any of her organs,” said Webber, a member of Parliament.
That promise turned into an effort to combine two of life’s certainties: death and taxes.
Webber announced last month his retirement from politics, after 10 years as an Alberta Progressive Conservative legislature member and 11 years as the Conservative MP for Calgary Confederation.
“I’m not a spring chicken. I’m going to be 65 this year. If I went one more round, I’d be 69, 70-ish. And then what? Ten years of life?” said Webber.
“It was time to go now.”
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