Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks with reporters in Ottawa, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
In tumultuous history of finance minister resignations, Freeland’s exit stands out
Having a finance minister openly condemn the prime minister’s policies on her way out is a fresh level of acrimony in Canadian political history, longtime observers of the country’s politics say
By Michael Tutton
Having a finance minister openly condemn the prime minister’s policies on her way out is a fresh level of acrimony in Canadian political history, longtime observers of the country’s politics say.
Chrystia Freeland’s exit from the finance portfolio isn’t a first in Canadian politics, but departing on the eve of an economic update with a stinging rebuke to the Liberal leader is unprecedented,” political historian Raymond Blake said in an interview Monday.
By Toronto Star
Inside Chrystia Freeland’s surprising resignation — and the fallout that has Justin Trudeau fighting for his political life
Freeland quit hours before she was set to deliver a key fiscal update in the House of Commons.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting once again for his political life. Behind closed doors.
At an emergency meeting Monday evening — called after Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau’s now former top deputy and one-time “minister of everything” quit as finance minister — the prime minister came face to face with Freeland along with an angry and bewildered caucus before he planned to go explain the crisis to the Liberal party’s top donors.
