Guelph MP Frank Valeriote won’t run in next election

Seven years as MP will be enough for Frank Valeriote.

The Guelph MP announced Friday that he will remain in the House of Commons through the current term, but will not seek re-election in 2015.

“Service is an honour, but family is paramount and fatherhood is a greater honour,” he said in a press release.

“It is for that reason that … I will not be seeking re-election.”

First elected during a 2008 byelection, Valeriote was re-elected in 2011.

He has recently served as the Liberal critic for veterans affairs.

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  Frank Valeriote. Liberal MP for the riding of Guelph, is applauded by fellow MPs as he stands during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, March 12, 2012. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN PRESS)