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.

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.

Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland, speaking at an automotive parts facility north of Toronto on Wednesday, said that if she wins the upcoming Liberal leadership race she would ask fellow candidate Mark Carney to be her finance minister saying she thinks ‘they’d make a great team.

Mark Carney, the front-runner in the race to become Canada’s next prime minister, squared off for the first time with rival Chrystia Freeland in a French-language TV debate that focused on how to handle US President Donald Trump.

For many francophone Canadians, the Liberal leadership debate on Monday was the first opportunity to hear each candidate speak extensively and mostly unscripted in French. That was particularly true for Mark Carney, the race’s frontrunner whose ability to think and communicate quickly in French has gone largely untested in the public’s eye.

The candidates will gather in a Montreal film studio for a debate in French. Former TVA-Québec anchor Pierre Jobin will moderate.

During the French-language Liberal leadership debate, candidate Chrystia Freeland corrected fellow candidate Mark Carney when he said ‘we agree with Hamas.’ Asked after the debate about the decision to correct Carney,

Canadians will finally get a chance to see the two contenders cross-examine each other’s plans to lead Canada through Hurricane Trump on the debate stage

Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney acknowledged there were 'areas of agreement' with rival Chrystia Freeland during the French-language debate Monday night, but added that he just became a politician and 'a lot of the discussion was about what has happened.

MONTREAL — A new poll suggests that while former central banker Mark Carney is still the odds-on favourite to ... lead among registered Liberals — and former finance minister Chrystia Freeland coming in second. The poll suggests 43 per cent of Liberal ...

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.

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