Liberals will choose a new leader. Who are the possible candidates to replace Trudeau?
CBC
Top Liberals will soon be lining up for the party's — and country's — top job after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he will be resigning.
After weeks of intensified calls from his own Liberal MPs, Trudeau announced Monday he would be stepping down as soon as the party picks a new leader.
Potential candidates will soon be making public pitches as to why they're best positioned to succeed Trudeau. Some have already begun sending subtle — and not so subtle — signals about their interest in the top job.
Here are some of the names frequently discussed as possible successors.
Former finance minister and deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland triggered a wave of calls for Trudeau's resignation when she resigned from cabinet on Dec. 16.
Later that day, she received a standing ovation at an emergency caucus meeting.
In an email to supporters and former staffers the next day, she also reignited rumours about her ambitions to succeed him: "this will not be the end of the road!"
Since then, a small number of the Liberal MPs opposing Trudeau have either expressed hopes that Freeland will run for the leadership or flat-out declared their support for her. Liberals also lined up to take pictures with her at the party's holiday party.
B.C. MP Ken Hardie told CBC's Power & Politics in December that "to parachute somebody in from the outside is a recipe for the kind of disasters that we've seen in the last three byelections."
"Ms. Freeland, particularly because of the skill with which she dealt with Donald Trump in Trump 1.0, is clearly the one that I would choose to take the fight back to him again. She's smart. She knows the drill with him."
Ontario MP Chandra Arya also told the program that, "by design or by circumstance, her time of resignation has put her into the spotlight. And she appears to be the person around whom the caucus members can rally behind."
After Trudeau's announcement on Monday, Freeland offered a brief thank you message to the prime minister.
"I thank Justin Trudeau for his years of service to Canada and Canadians. I wish him and his family the very best," she wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
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