Mark Carney to run for seat in Ottawa's Nepean riding: sources

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 22, 2025 8:19 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

Prime Minister Mark Carney volition tally successful the Ottawa riding of Nepean successful the adjacent national election, sources with cognition of the determination confirmed to CBC News and Radio-Canada.

The riding has been held by Liberal MP Chandra Arya since 2015, but the 62-year-old learned Thursday that the enactment had removed him arsenic their candidate.

Arya had already been nominated to tally again.

• Liberals revoke Chandra Arya's nomination, aft removing him from enactment race

Carney has ne'er held elected office. He became premier curate soon aft winning the Liberal enactment earlier this month.

The riding wherever helium volition question to go an MP borders the riding of Carleton, where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is moving for an eighth word arsenic an MP.

Carney is expected to inquire the Governor General connected Sunday to dissolve Parliament, marking the opening of a national predetermination campaign.

Sources person confirmed to CBC News that predetermination time volition beryllium connected April 28.