Transport Minister Anita Anand says shes running for re-election – National [Video]

Anita Anand, minister of transport and internal trade, says she’s changed her mind and will run in the upcoming federal election.

In January, Anand said she would not run for the Liberal party leadership and would not seek re-election as she considered returning to her former life as an academic.

Anand, who was first elected in 2019, said last month that the prime minister’s decision to move on inspired her to do the same.

But she said Friday U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade threats are pushing her to stay on as she rallies the provinces to drop internal trade barriers.

She said that when she made her decision to step away, Canada was not in the “existential crisis” it’s in now. She said she made her decision before U.S. President Donald Trump was inaugurated.

“However, we now face threats of annexation, we are being called the 51st state and we are facing the potential 25 per cent tariffs across the economy, including on steel and aluminum,” Anand …