Veteran Liberal MP Wayne Easter Won’t Seek Re Election in Long Held P.E.I. Riding

Committee Chair and Liberal MP Wayne Easter speaks via videoconference during a House of Commons finance committee in the Wellington Building on July 30, 2020. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

OTTAWA—Veteran Liberal MP Wayne Easter has decided not to run for a tenth term in Parliament.

The one-time cabinet minister says he won’t seek re-election in the Prince Edward Island riding of Malpeque, which he’s represented uninterrupted for almost 28 years.