One of Canada’s longest-serving members of Parliament says he will toss his hat into the electoral ring again in 2019.

“That’s the plan,” Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay, 72, told iPolitics in a year-end interview when asked if he was planning to run again.

MacAulay, a retired dairy and seed-potato farmer, has served as the MP for the Prince Edward Island riding of Cardigan for 30 years. He was first elected in 1988, defeating the incumbent, Progressive Conservative Pat Binn, who would go on to become the island’s premier.

Since then, MacAulay has won every election, making him the longest-serving MP from P.E.I. and one of the longest-serving MPs in the House of Commons. If he wins next year, it will be his 10th term.

Bloc Québécois MP Louis Plamondon, who was first elected in 1984 as a Progressive Conservative, is the dean of the House of Commons, a title given to the longest-serving current MP. The record for the longest consecutive term held by an MP is 41 years and two-and-a-half months — a record belonging to Canada’s first francophone prime minister, Sir Wilfred Laurier.

Born in St. Peter’s Bay, P.E.I., on Sept. 9, 1946, MacAulay married Frances in 1972. They have three daughters: Carolyn, Rita and Lynn. The family no longer farms.

Before becoming Canada’s agriculture minister in 2015, MacAulay held a handful of ministerial portfolios, including minister of state for veterans, labour minister (from June 1997 to November 1998) and solicitor general in former prime minister Jean Chrétien’s cabinet.

He was appointed solicitor general in November 1998, after Andy Scott was forced to resign from the post because an NDP MP said he overheard Scott discussing the possible outcome of an inquiry into the use of pepper spray by RCMP officers at the 1997 Asia Pacific Economic Conference in Vancouver.

The shuffle meant MacAulay was solicitor general the day al-Qaida terrorists flew planes into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, killing more than 3,000 people.

However, the P.E.I. MP would be forced to resign as solicitor general in 2002 over allegations he was directing federal money to friends and family. He was cleared by Canada’s ethics commissioner on all counts, except for one, in which he gave money in 1999 to Holland College, P.E.I.’s only community college, when his brother was its president. The money had been earmarked for the training of correctional officers.

MacAulay insisted at the time he did nothing wrong, arguing he should not be prevented from dealing with a major island institution because of an appointment made by the provincial government. Chrétien backed him, but accepted his resignation. “He did absolutely nothing wrong,” Chrétien told CBC News in 2002.