Frontrunners include Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney, who are making the case they can guide Canada through domestic and international issues. At the top of the list: mounting trade tensions with the United States.

Canadians still don’t know much about Mr Carney, but they have been speed-dating him since January, when he launched his candidacy to lead the country’s governing Liberal Party. Polls suggest that, at an anxious time for Canadians,

Mark Carney, the front-runner to become Canada's new prime minister, is a two-time central banker and crisis fighter who may soon face his biggest challenge of all: steering Canada through Donald Trump's tariffs.