Longest-serving Tory MP won’t run again this fall
Minister of Justice Rob Nicholson responds to a question during Question Period in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Wednesday May 9, 2012.
Nicholson, who was first elected in 1984 in Niagara Falls and held cabinet posts for more than a decade, says it's time for him to focus on his family. Nicholson won his riding six times, first in 1984 and again in 1988, 2004, 2008, 2011 and 2015, with a stint in local politics in the 1990s.From 2006 until 2015, he was appointed by then prime minister Stephen Harper to several cabinet portfolios, including justice, defence and foreign affairs.
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