Winnipeg city councillor Marty Morantz will seek the Conservative nomination for the 2019 federal election.
Morantz will be looking to run in the Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia-Headingley riding.
Liberal MP Doug Eylofson currently represents that area in Ottawa.
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Morantz was elected to council in 2014.
“This seems the right time in my life to step forward and offer a positive, conservative alternative at the federal level,” Morantz said in a statement.
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While he will remain on council for the remainder of his term, he announced Thursday he has resigned from both EPC and chair of the infrastructure committee.
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