[Dion]

"I made my decision yesterday and it's incredibly difficult," a visibly emotional Towle said at a noon news conference with Prentice and Donovan. "I consider most of my caucus mates my friends, but I felt that I had done all that I could in the role that I was in."

Towle said that she made her decision after talking to her constituents. She said that fractures in the party on the direction of the party leadership, which she supported, played a part.

"I just felt that some of the decisions that were being made were taking our party in a way that was not in line with what my constituents elected me to do ... I didn't think I could do anything to fix that path."

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