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Liberal Leader Mark Carney will run in the riding of Nepean in the upcoming election, a party source confirmed Saturday evening.
Carney, who won the leadership on March 9, will be running for the Ottawa seat held since 2015 by Liberal MP Chandra Arya.
However, the party told Arya this past week that his candidacy for the next general election had been revoked.
In a social-media post, Arya posted a letter from the Liberal Party of Canada that said it had conducted a thorough review of his eligibility, and “after careful consideration, based on a review of new information … the national campaign co-chair is recommending the revocation of your status as a candidate.”
A former governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, Carney has been a resident of the Rockcliffe Park community in Ottawa since returning to this country from England in 2020.
Carney is expected to meet Sunday with Governor General Mary Simon to ask that she dissolve Parliament, setting the stage for a general election. Speculation has been that the vote would be scheduled for either April 28 or May 5.
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