It is not often that Canada’s politics are more eventful than America’s, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s botched firing of Chrystia Freeland, his finance minister and deputy prime minister, produced such an occasion.
First, a recap of the events. On Friday, December 13, Trudeau told Freeland in a Zoom call that, once she delivered the government’s fall economic statement (essentially a mini budget) on Monday, she would be replaced as finance minister. Shortly before she was set to deliver the statement on Monday morning, Freeland published a scathing resignation letter in which she accused Trudeau of charting a fiscal direction with “costly political gimmicks, which we can ill afford” and suggested that Canadians knew Trudeau was focused on himself instead of working for them.
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