The former finance minister and deputy prime minister joined former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and Government House leader Karina Gould in the race.

Former finance minister turned cabinet turned disrupter Chrystia Freeland will kick off her campaign to be the next Liberal leader at a launch in her Toronto riding today.

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.