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.
In a sparsely worded post on the social media platform X, the former finance minister and deputy prime minister said simply that she's "running to fight for Canada."
Amid Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s calls for a “carbon tax election”, two leading Liberal leadership candidates are dropping the Trudeau policy.
Chrystia Freeland has called for economic retaliation if President-elect Trump follows through with his threat to impose tariffs.
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
A new poll suggests that Liberal supporters prefer Mark Carney as their next leader over a field of potential candidates.
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 ...
The former finance minister is seeking to distance herself from unpopular measures introduced while in Trudeau’s cabinet
The ball is in Chrystia Freeland's court, now that Mark Carney has officially launched his campaign to become the next Liberal leader.
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.