Liberal Party choosing new leader to succeed Trudeau

Leadership time has arrived

Eight weeks and six days aft Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his plans to measurement down, the Liberal Party is acceptable to denote who volition go the party's newest leader.

Whoever wins the enactment contention volition instrumentality the enactment into a caller epoch of Canadian authorities — not lone 1 without Trudeau for the archetypal clip successful implicit a decade, but 1 to beryllium challenged by an unpredictable Trump administration.

The extremity of the enactment contention besides means a national predetermination could beryllium close astir the corner.

CBC News has peculiar sum of the enactment lawsuit starting astatine 4 p.m. ET.

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