Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly’s office confirms she has briefed Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney on President Donald Trump’s tariffs days ahead of Sunday’s leadership vote this week.
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.
Joly told Liberal MPs at a national caucus meeting on Wednesday she has been briefing Carney ahead of the Sunday vote.
According to multiple Liberal sources with knowledge of what happened at Wednesday’s virtual national caucus meeting—including an MP who was there—Joly suggested that she has not yet briefed the other Liberal leadership candidates….