Chrystia Freeland's dramatic resignation as finance minister raises questions about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's leadership and handling of his cabinet.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must think he’s politically invulnerable. And who could blame him? He brought the Liberal Party back from the brink when he took over as leader more than a decade ago, and has managed to weather a spate of missteps, own goals, and outside calamities that could have hobbled other politicians. This overly strong sense of self may help to explain why Dec. 16 played out as dramatically as it did.
After years as a loyal Trudeau soldier, former “minister of everything” Chrystia Freeland had finally had enough. The erstwhile deputy prime minister and finance minster resigned in spectacular fashion, mere hours before she was set to finally deliver the government’s long-awaited fall economic statement. And who could blame her? If her resignation letter is to be believed, Freeland was informed three days prior that this fiscal update would be her last and that Trudeau—as a prime minister is wont to do—was giving someone else the finance minister job. What’s more, as has been reported, Freeland wasn’t even going to get a consolation prize, but rather the ignominious “honour” of being a minister without portfolio just so that the government could continue to use her expertise in handling the returning Trump administration across the border. It's baffling that the prime minister thought he could tell someone they were losing their job, and expect them to hold their head up—and their nose pinched shut—and carry on. But given past precedent, and all that Trudeau has weathered in his tenure as prime minister, it must have seemed inconceivable to him that things wouldn’t just work out. Freeland isn’t the first finance minister to end up on the outs with her boss—but she is the first woman. And while that may have zero bearing on the outcome of this situation, it’s hard not to look at it through the lens with which Trudeau himself has sought to craft his image as feminist champio
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