The frontrunners for the Liberal leadership are former central banker Mark Carney and ex-Finance Minster Chrystia Freeland.
Canada’s governing Liberal Party will announce the country’s new prime minister March 9 after a leadership vote that follows the resignation of Justin Trudeau this week.
Mark Carney, the first non-Brit to run the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694 and the former head of Canada’s central bank, says he is entering the race to be Canada’s next prime minister fo
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans to resign after calls increased for his ouster over his handling of economic policies.
The front runners for the Liberal leadership are former central banker Mark Carney and ex-Finance Minster Chrystia Freeland, whose abrupt resignation last month forced Trudeau's exit.
This week saw former central banker Mark Carney officially announce his candidacy for leader of the Liberal Party and thus the prime minister’s office. In a speech in Edmonton defined by long pauses, he promised a “plan,” not a “slogan,” taking care to pronounce each word so that they rhymed.
Carney coronation? We Liberals love a coronation. Mark Carney is likely to be the next prime minister of Canada. He’s also likely to lose the next election, badly. In 1958, Lester B. Pearson lost, badly.
Even the second time around, their focus has been on highlighting his supposed madness rather than trying to get a fix on his method
Last week, the Liberal party detailed its new requirements for party membership and, accordingly, for voting for its new leader in March. It claimed the changes would protect “the integrity of our democratic process,” but the measures are blatantly insufficient to ensure that the next prime minister is not chosen by a foreign state.
It might seem like a distant memory now, but it's worth remembering that every major federal party ran in 2021 on a platform that included a consumer carbon tax.Nearly every single Liberal, NDP and Conservative MP who currently sits in the House of Commons — up to and including Pierre Poilievre,