Canada's Foreign Minister Won't Run to Replace Trudeau

Meanwhile, former central banker Mark Carney is poised to announce that he's jumping into the race to succeed Trudeau

- Bloomberg

OTTAWA: Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said she won't enter the leadership race to succeed Justin Trudeau as prime minister.

Joly, who has long been seen as a contender for the Liberal Party leadership, will instead focus on her cabinet job ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20 and his threat to impose economically devastating tariffs on Canada.

"The threat is now. I'm the foreign minister now. January 20 is in a week or so. So, my job is to work on retaliatory tariffs as we speak," she told reporters before entering a meeting of the Canada-US cabinet committee on Friday.

Her decision means Trudeau's two frontline ministers in managing the US relationship will stay in their roles during the leadership race, scheduled to conclude March 9.