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CBC News Chief Political Correspondent Rosemary Barton hosts special coverage as Liberal members choose who they want as party leader and Canada’s next prime minister.
Tonight the Liberal Party will announce its next leader and the person who will soon become prime minister — a job they’ll inherit amid economic turbulence and a deeply wounded relationship with the country’s once closest ally.
The party’s choice — who would become prime minister only after being sworn in by the Governor General — not only represents a new chapter for the Liberals but could also mean the imminent start of a federal election.
CBC News will bring special coverage of the historic event beginning at 4 p.m. ET.
Those vying for the job are former central banker Mark Carney, former finance minister and current MP Chrystia Freeland, former House leader and current MP Karina Gould and Montreal business leader and former MP …
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