Carney leads in fundraising as Freeland says numbers don’t ‘tell the whole story’ [Video]

Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney is pulling in more money from more contributors than any of his competitors in the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — and it’s not even close, according to Elections Canada filings released Tuesday.

Carney hauled in an impressive $1.9 million in donations from 11,260 contributors, a figure that easily dwarfs the $226,661 former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland collected from 332 donors in the first leg of this Liberal leadership race.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Carney said the campaign has “built a strong and growing grassroots fundraising effort, reflecting the broad-based enthusiasm and momentum we’ve seen for Mark’s plan to build a strong economy.”

The spokesperson said 68 per cent of the money brought in was from contributions under $100.

While Carney appears to have a comfortable fundraising edge, a spokesperson for Freeland told CBC News the data in the Elections …