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Longtime Ottawa MP and former senior cabinet minister John Baird will not seek the Conservative party leadership, he announced Monday morning.

A newspaper report on Monday said Baird was seriously considering a run at the leadership to replace Stephen Harper, who resigned the post following the Oct. 19 election defeat.

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But Baird issued a news release announcing he is not interested in the Conservative leadership and remains happy with his life in the private sector.