The six candidates running for Liberal leadership have now all registered with Elections Canada, which monitors their fundraising activities as political leadership contestants under the law.

The Liberal Party of Canada is declining to say why Ottawa MP Chandra Arya was disqualified from its leadership race.

Arya’s exit from the race leaves six candidates: former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland, former banker Mark Carney, House Leader Karina Gould, Nova Scotia MP Jaime Battiste and former MPs Frank Baylis and Ruby Dhalla. The party will announce the winner of the race on March 9.

OTTAWA - One of the seven Liberal leadership hopefuls says the party is not allowing him to run, as another high-profile cabinet minister endorsed Mark Carney on Sunday.

Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland says her top rival Mark Carney appears to be “the choice of the Liberal establishment” as more federal cabinet ministers rally around the former Bank of Canada governor.

The Big Story podcast takes a look at the federal Liberal leadership race thus far, including the endorsement battle and the Trump effect.

Six of the seven Liberal leadership candidates who submitted their nomination papers have now been approved by the party to run in the race to succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The Liberal Party of Canada approved former central banker Mark Carney, MPs Chrystia Freeland, Karina Gould and Jaime Battiste, as well as former MPs Frank Baylis and Ruby Dhalla, to run in the leadership race. They also have to be confirmed by Elections Canada.

Liberal lawmakers defended their endorsements of candidates to replace outgoing leader Justin Trudeau on Thursday, after the deadline for joining the race passed.

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Canadians are surprised that a Member of Parliament won’t be able to run in the Liberal leadership race to become the next prime minister.

Freeland pledges a new process for party leadership reviews, while Gould says caucus could adopt the Reform Act to vote out their leaders