Evan Solomon has announced he will be running to be an MP for the Liberal party in the next federal election.
Solomon revealed the news in a LinkedIn post on Thursday
afternoon, confirming a report from CTV News earlier in the day.
“Given the urgent challenges and threats facing Canadians
right now, I’ve decided it’s the right time to come home and do whatever I can
to help serve my community and country,” Solomon wrote.
Solomon most recently worked for the Eurasia
Group as the publisher for GZERO Media – a position he
started in the fall of 2022. He was also recently a special correspondent with
CTV News, but resigned from that role prior to Prime Minister Mark Carney being
elected as Liberal party leader on March 9.
Previously, Solomon worked at Bell Media from 2016 to 2022,
first as the host of Ottawa Now on 580 CFRA and
later as the host of CTV News political programs Question Period and Power Play.
During that time, he also hosted The Evan Solomon Show, a
nationally syndicated radio program on the iHeart Radio network.
Before that, he was the host of CBC’s daily political show Power & Politics and weekly national radio program The House. (Toronto Star)
