Freeland has officially announced her candidacy for the position of Prime Minister of Canada.

Former Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland has officially announced her intention to run for the leadership of the Liberal Party. If she wins, she will automatically replace Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister.

This information was reported by RBK-Ukraine citing Freeland's post on the social network X.

She published a concise statement saying that she is "running to fight for Canada."

"The official campaign launch is on Sunday," she noted.

She also added that it is time to "fight for Canada at a moment when U.S. President Donald Trump threatens our country."

Who is Chrystia Freeland

Freeland has Ukrainian roots. Her mother, Halyna Khomyak, was born in a refugee camp after World War II, and her grandfather, Mykhailo Khomyak, was a journalist and political émigré. Her father, Donald Freeland, was a lawyer and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Chrystia Freeland began her journalism career in Ukraine and worked for the Financial Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist. From 1999 to 2001, Freeland was the deputy editor of the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail, after which she took on the role of FT director in the U.S. In 2010, Freeland transitioned to the editor position at Thomson Reuters.

Since 2013, she entered politics, won elections, and became a member of the Canadian Parliament representing the Liberal Party. In November 2015, she became the Minister of International Trade of Canada, and in 2017, she took over as Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 2019, she became Deputy Prime Minister under Justin Trudeau, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, and a year later, she headed the Ministry of Finance.

Recall that on December 16, Freeland resigned due to disagreement with Trudeau's stance amid threats of a tariff war from the new administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

This was one of the episodes demonstrating the decline of Trudeau's support within the Liberal Party, after which he announced his resignation as party leader in early January but will remain Prime Minister until a new leader is chosen.

For more details on the political landscape in this country, read the article "Change of Power in Canada: Who Will Succeed Trudeau and What It Means for Ukraine."