Julian Fantino, for years Ontario's best known and highest-ranking cop, will be the Conservative candidate in the Vaughan federal by-election when it's called by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Toronto Star has learned.

A senior government source said "he's going for it, no doubt" -- even as the Prime Minister's office tried to douse expectations that the former Ontario Provincial Police commissioner was making the leap to federal politics.

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