Mark Carney to run for seat in Ottawa’s Nepean riding: sources | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney will run in the Ottawa riding of Nepean in the next federal election, sources with knowledge of the decision 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 party had removed him as their candidate.

Arya had already been nominated to run again.

Carney has never held elected office. He became prime minister shortly after winning the Liberal leadership earlier this month.

The riding where he will seek to become an MP borders the riding of Carleton, where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is running for an eighth term as an MP.

Carney is expected to ask the Governor General on Sunday to dissolve Parliament, marking the beginning of a federal election campaign.

Sources have confirmed to CBC News that election day will be on April 28.