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.

Amid Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s calls for a “carbon tax election”, two leading Liberal leadership candidates are dropping the Trudeau policy.

In a sparsely worded post on the social media platform X, the former finance minister and deputy prime minister said simply that she's "running to fight for Canada."

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OTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and former finance minister Chrystia Freeland are lining up support from Liberal MPs before officially entering the Liberal leadership race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Former Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland intends to run to lead the country's Liberal Party. In a statement posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday, Freeland said she would hold a formal campaign launch in the coming days,

Chrystia Freeland, the former Canadian finance minister who helped bring Justin Trudeau’s political career to an end when she resigned in December, has joined the race to replace him as prime minister.

The ball is in Chrystia Freeland's court, now that Mark Carney has officially launched his campaign to become the next Liberal leader.