Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly on Friday announced she would not run in the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, saying she wanted to focus on the threat posed by potential U.S. tariffs.

Canada's Liberal Party will select its next leader on March 9 after Justin Trudeau’s resignation. The race sees Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland as front-runners amid political uncertainty.

By suspending Parliament and promising to resign, the prime minister bought the Liberals time. But Canada will now face Donald J. Trump with a lame duck in charge.

Justin Trudeau chose Jan. 6, a day fraught with significance for Americans, to announce he will depart from the Canadian Office of the Prime Minister. He did so after last year’s visit to President-elect Donald Trump ’s Mar-a-Lago club spectacularly misfired.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans to resign after calls increased for his ouster over his handling of economic policies.

C anadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is stepping down as the leader of the ruling Liberal Party, following months of pressure from partymates to resign amid increasingly poor public approval ratings.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she won't seek the Liberal leadership, arguing her role in cabinet is too important during an especially charged moment in Canada-U.S. relations."I decided to put my country first,

The front runners for the Liberal leadership are former central banker Mark Carney and ex-Finance Minster Chrystia Freeland, whose abrupt resignation last month forced Trudeau's exit.

Former B.C. premier Christy Clark is no stranger to being an underdog and has experience uniting a fractured caucus.

Future of Canada's federal electric vehicle rebates — which span $2,500 to $5,000 — has been thrown into uncertainty as federal funding dries up.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are running their first leadership race in more than a decade and their shortest in the party's modern history to replace Justin Trudeau.