Frank Baylis

Only two of the candidates in the Liberal leadership race — Mark Carney and Ruby Dhalla — disclosed their fundraising events to Elections Canada.

It's not clear when Carney will be sworn in as prime minister. After the Liberal event, hundreds of his supporters attended a victory party at an Ottawa venue, where Carney encouraged the crowd to party tonight, then get to work tomorrow.

Carney is the presumed front-runner for the party's leadership and could become prime minister as early as next week — which would make Trump's growing trade war with Canada his problem to sort out.

In a series of press conferences in recent weeks, the federal Conservatives have demanded that Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney comply with the conflict of interest rules that apply to members of Parliament and cabinet ministers.

With the debates now done, Liberal party members can start casting advance ballots today to select their next leader a little under two weeks from now.

Presumed front-runner and former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and former finance minister Chrystia Freeland clashed over the Liberal government's record of economic management

The candidates — former central banker Mark Carney, former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, former government House leader Karina Gould and former MP Frank Baylis — spent much of the debate talking about the threat Trump poses to Canada's economy and sovereignty.

The candidates in the race to be the next leader of the Liberal Party of Canada will square off tonight in the first of two live debates.

Baylis told The Canadian Press in an interview that a government led by him would take the opposite approach. He said the only way to deal with a bully like Trump is to dig in your heels and refuse to offer him anything.

Carney vowed at a press conference in Toronto on Wednesday to split the budget into two streams — capital and operating spending — and to balance the operating side while running small capital deficits.

Chrystia Freeland's Liberal leadership campaign is insisting that fundraising numbers released on Tuesday don't give an accurate picture of her haul during the first part of the race.

Some political leaders in Canada want to rekindle pipeline projects in the face of U.S. tariffs threatening the country’s energy security. Pipeline companies say they’ve moved on.

The Liberal grassroots have backed at least four resolutions for basic income programs at policy conventions including by a vote of 77 per cent at a virtual convention held in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it has never appeared in a campaign platform.

A Leger survey suggests a Carney-led party would boost Liberal support by six points to 37 per cent, putting them in a dead heat with the Tories.

Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland will publish a plan today to lower food prices, attacking a key part of the cost-of-living issue that plagued her for much of her tenure as the minister of finance.