Less than five weeks after she resigned her cabinet seat over a dispute with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland has launched her campaign to replace him as the leader of the Liberal party.

Amid Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s calls for a “carbon tax election”, two leading Liberal leadership candidates are dropping the Trudeau policy.

Former Canadian finance minister Chrystia Freeland is running to be the next leader of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister of Canada.

OTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and former finance minister Chrystia Freeland are lining up support from Liberal MPs before officially entering the Liberal leadership race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Liberal leadership race’s presumptive front-runners won’t continue consumer aspect of Trudeau’s most visible climate policy, sources say

Born in the remote Northwest Territories, Mark Carney grew up in Alberta and was educated at Harvard and Oxford — just like Chrystia Freeland. In fact, he’s the godfather of her son. Carney, 59, has never run for political office. But he has become a ...

A new poll suggests that Liberal supporters prefer Mark Carney as their next leader over a field of potential candidates.

Canada’s former finance minister Chrystia Freeland is running to be the country’s next prime minister after Justin Trudeau stepped down earlier this month. Freeland, now a Toronto-based MP, posted on X that she would officially launch her bid to become leader of the governing Liberal party on Sunday. “I’m running to fight for Canada,” she said.

Leadership candidates must declare they will run by Jan. 23. They will face a $5 million spending cap during the race, which ends with the vote on March 9.