Mark Carney, the front-runner in the race to become Canada’s next prime minister, squared off for the first time with rival Chrystia Freeland in a French-language TV debate that focused on how to handle US President Donald Trump.

For many francophone Canadians, the Liberal leadership debate on Monday was the first opportunity to hear each candidate speak extensively and mostly unscripted in French. That was particularly true for Mark Carney, the race’s frontrunner whose ability to think and communicate quickly in French has gone largely untested in the public’s eye.

It would be a true surprise now if Carney somehow did not become the 14th leader in the history of the Liberal Party of Canada on March 9. But even if Carney is on the verge of winning the first political contest he ever entered,

Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney acknowledged there were 'areas of agreement' with rival Chrystia Freeland during the French-language debate Monday night, but added that he just became a politician and 'a lot of the discussion was about what has happened.

During the French-language Liberal leadership debate, candidate Chrystia Freeland corrected fellow candidate Mark Carney when he said ‘we agree with Hamas.’ Asked after the debate about the decision to correct Carney,

Karina Gould, former House Leader; Frank Baylis, former Liberal MP; Chrystia Freeland, former Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Canada; and Mark Carney, for

As in 1984, the fix is in. In its desperate attempt to throw a hail-Mary pass to Mr. Carney, the Liberal establishment raced past the contender to whom they owed the fact that Mr. Carney is even on th

Canadians will finally get a chance to see the two contenders cross-examine each other’s plans to lead Canada through Hurricane Trump on the debate stage

Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney says he's written to the British and Irish governments to begin the process of renouncing his citizenship in both countries, leaving him solely with Canadian citizenship if the process is completed.

The first major French test for federal Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney came during Monday's debate in Montreal, and it proved to be a tough slog.

A new poll suggests that while former central banker Mark Carney is still the odds-on favourite to win the Liberal leadership, he isn't likely to win on the first ballot.

The candidates will gather in a Montreal film studio for a debate in French. Former TVA-Québec anchor Pierre Jobin will moderate.