Front-runner Mark Carney and underdog Chrystia Freeland, both established, centrist policymakers, are vying to succeed Justin Trudeau amid grave threats to Canada from the United States.

Frontrunners include Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney, who are making the case they can guide Canada through domestic and international issues. At the top of the list: mounting trade tensions with the United States.

Mr Trudeau’s Liberal Party suddenly finds itself atop some opinion polls for the first time in almost two years, having scraped historic lows just two months ago. Mr Trump’s unsettling and relentless insistence that Canada join the United States as its 51st state or face staggering tariffs has cracked the basis on which Canada’s Conservatives and their leader,

With federal election polling showing a tighter race, the outcome of the Liberal leadership race just got a lot more interesting.

Former Canadian and U.K. central banker Mark Carney is viewed as the presumptive favorite, based on polling and fundraising.

Mark Carney, who formerly served as governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, is generally likely to be chosen the new Liberal leader when the results of a vote by over 400,000 party mem

Canadians still don’t know much about Mr Carney, but they have been speed-dating him since January, when he launched his candidacy to lead the country’s governing Liberal Party. Polls suggest that, at an anxious time for Canadians,

Now that Justin Trudeau announced his resignation, , these four people are vying to be the next Liberal Party leader.

The four candidates vying to become the next leader of Canada’s Liberal party made the case during a debate Tuesday night why they are best suited to deal with U.S. President Donald Trump. Former central banker Mark Carney,