Canada‘s Liberal Party will select a new leader to replace Justin Trudeau on Sunday night, with that candidate likely to become the next prime minister of Canada, who will have to face the latest sovereignty and tariff threats from the Trump administration.

Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney and former Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland are considered frontrunners in the race.

Mr Trudeau’s Liberal Party suddenly finds itself atop some opinion polls for the first time in almost two years, having scraped historic lows just two months ago. Mr Trump’s unsettling and relentless insistence that Canada join the United States as its 51st state or face staggering tariffs has cracked the basis on which Canada’s Conservatives and their leader,