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OTTAWA — 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.
Potential candidates have less than a week left to decide if they will enter the race, which will conclude on March 9. They have to pay $50,000 immediately and the rest of the $350,000 entrance fee by mid-February to make it onto the ballot. Freeland, who was leading Canada’s response to U.S. tariff threats until she resigned as finance minister, is making fighting back against U.S. president-elect Donald Trump a key plank of her platform.
Former cabinet minister Marie-Claude Bibeau posted her support for Freeland on social media shortly after Freeland’s own statement was published. Housefather posted his endorsement Thursday evening, saying he trusts Freeland “implicitly” to manage Canada’s relationship with the United States. He also said he encourages candidates to drop the Liberal government’s planned changes to the capital gains inclusion rate. The policy was proposed in the last federal budget under Freeland’s tenure as finance minister.
Joly spent the day meeting with both Republicans and Democrats including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, and Idaho Sen. James Risch.
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