The link between Podesta and Carney — the new Liberal Party leader who has controversially been pictured alongside Jeffrey Epstein madame Ghislaine Maxwell — comes via Gerald Butts, a former political advisor to recently departed PM Justin Trudeau for more than a decade.

Liberal and PC leaders have promised for decades to close a loophole allowing leadership candidates to keep the information of donors secret.

Canada’s Liberal Party elected Mark Carney as its new leader Sunday, positioning him to succeed Justin Trudeau as prime minister.

Some 400,000 Liberal Party members were eligible to cast ballots in their party’s important leadership race to decide who will succeed Mr. Trudeau and mark a new era in Canadian politics.