Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland says she wants her rival — former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney — to join her cabinet if she wins the contest on Sunday and becomes prime minister.

HBO host Bill Maher urged former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland to abandon her party's woke policies while she runs to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister.

Chrystia Freeland says if she becomes prime minister, she wants her rival, Mark Carney, to serve as finance minister — the role Freeland resigned from a few months ago.

Chrystia Freeland says Canada should build closer security partnerships with Nato allies as US president is ‘threatening sovereignty’

With polls and fundraising pointing to former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney as the front-runner, Freeland still sees a possible path to victory in a race that, much like global politics as a whole, has been dominated by the disruptive decisions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

A few months ago, the Liberal party of Trudeau, Freeland and Carney was miles behind in the polls for Canada’s next general election, which will be held later this year. But the opposition Conservatives have been close to Trump, and that’s hurting them with the Canadian public, with the Liberals now opening up a narrow lead in the polls.

Politics reached out to a senior Freeland campaign source on their path to victory, and they laid out a four-pillar plan that sought to take advantage of her popularity amongst key groups and shifting political grounds.

The four candidates vying to become the next leader of Canada’s Liberal party have made the case during a debate why they are best suited to deal with U.S.

Freeland, a semi-regular panelist on the irreverent political talk show, was in “full campaign mode” as she made her pitch to Maher that she was the right person to defend Canada against the whims of U.S. President Donald Trump. “The ballot question… is who can stand up for Canada, and who can fight for Canada,” Freeland told Maher.

Becoming a Conservative-in-waiting is not the solution to Canada's ills, just like Chrystia Freeland is not the answer.

Freeland was finance minister until she quit on Dec. 16, citing a disagreement with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the state of the country’s finances

Donald Trump’s belligerence towards his northern neighbour seems to have restored the party’s popularity ahead of a general election this year. Chrystia tells host Gideon Rachman that Canadians are sticking together and that they have some strong cards to play.