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,

Freeland was elected to the House of Commons in 2013, two years before Trudeau took office with a majority in 2015. During that election, she drummed up media attention by attempting to enter the men-only Cambridge Club where a Conservative cabinet minister was set to speak.

OTTAWA—Mark Carney, the former Canadian and U.K. central banker, formally declared his interest in succeeding Justin Trudeau as leader of Canada’s Liberal Party and the country’s prime minister, promising an economic agenda focused on lifting it from a period of stagnant growth.