12/16/2024

Trudeau’s Top Lieutenant Resigns over Differences on Trump

Canada sends three-quarters of its exports to the United States

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, formerly known as Twitter, 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.

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