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.

Carney, 59, will succeed Justin Trudeau, who announced in January that he would step down amid low approval ratings following a decade in office.

A recent Ipsos poll showed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party has now edged ahead of the rival Canadian Conservative Party that had enjoyed several years of dominance in

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

Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, the president has transformed the upcoming Canadian elections into a referendum on which Canadian leader is most effective at standing up to America’s bully-in-chief — and,