Former Canadian finance minister Chrystia Freeland will run for prime minister. She announced this on the social network X.
“I am running to fight for Canada“, the statement says.
Chrystia Freeland has Ukrainian roots. Her mother, born Galina Khomyak, is of Ukrainian descent.
Chrystia Freeland resigned in December. Political observers consider her chances of defeating the Conservatives in the parliamentary elections to be small.
Earlier it became known that early parliamentary elections in Canada could be held this spring, even if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau does not resign voluntarily.