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TORONTO — Justin Trudeau’s chief lieutenant throughout his tenure as Canada’s prime minister resigned from his cabinet on Monday, citing differences over how to confront President-elect Donald Trump’s “America First” economic nationalism, threatened tariffs and a possible trade war.
The abrupt resignation of Chrystia Freeland, who served the past four years as both finance minister and deputy prime minister, is the latest blow to the embattled Trudeau, whose popularity has nosedived over the past year. If federal elections were held today, polls project a wipeout for his Liberal Party.
In her resignation letter, posted on Freeland’s X account Monday morning, shortly before she was scheduled to deliver a fall fiscal and economic update to Parliament, Freeland said Trudeau told her that he no longer wanted her to serve as his finance minister and offered her another cabinet role.
“Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from the Cabinet,” she said. “To be effective, a Minister must speak on behalf of the Prime Minister and with his full confidence. In making your decision, you made clear that I no longer credibly enjoy that confidence and possess the authority that comes with it.”
Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark.
She smells blood in the water and positioning herself to take the leadership of the Liberal Party.
I wonder if this has to do with it?
Hey, Santa is working overtime getting us presents this Christmas! Pelosi's broken hip, Turtle falling over in the Senate, French, German, and now maybe Canadian governments falling.
