Former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland said she will be running for the Liberal Party leadership with an official campaign launch taking place on Jan. 19.
Freeland made the announcement in a short statement issued on Jan. 17, which only says: “I’m running to fight for Canada.”
Freeland was widely expected to run and her statement came a day after the other top contender in the race Mark Carney launched his campaign on Jan. 16 in Edmonton.
Freeland said last year her and Carney, former head of the central banks of Canada and the U.K., are longtime friends and that she received advice from Carney while she was minister….