Trudeau has lost the room

Chrystia Freeland gave us all a valuable lesson on what happens when you lose the support of your star players.
Freeland’s chaos-inducing resignation brings ever more uncertainty in the face of Canada’s trade emergency

Chrystia Freeland’s dramatic move has thrown the ruling Liberals into disarray, and raised new questions about the stability of Trudeau’s minority government.
A people pushed will push back

A system of exploitation results in anger and a rejection of democracy and capitalism.
Does ‘Team Canada’ need a new captain?

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 […]
‘She knows how to make a splash, and knows how to get things done,’ says author of new Freeland book

Catherine Tsalikis spent four years researching Chrystia Freeland’s life. She tells The Hill Times that she sees two constants in the former deputy prime minister’s life: principle and loyalty.
Trudeau’s isolation and arrogance will be his undoing

Did Freeland’s firing expose Trudeau as a fake feminist? To some, this is an irrefutable fact, but Trudeau has also humiliated male ministers, including Bill Morneau and David Lametti—anyone, really, who dares question his supreme wisdom. The underlying problem is that he attracted accomplished individuals to cabinet, then treated them like wallpaper.
PM Trudeau appears to have reached a decision about his future, but he’s not yet prepared to announce it, say some Liberal MPs

Unlike the Oct. 23 national Liberal caucus meeting, on Dec. 16, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ‘absorbed the message’ from MPs that it’s time to move on, a Liberal MP told The Hill Times.
Freeland’s cabinet exit sets ‘off a bomb,’ revealing Trudeau’s ‘inept’ leadership: observers

The government appears to be ‘improvising’ as it manages the on-the-fly appointment of a new finance minister, and an economic statement that shows the deficit has grown by more than 50 per cent, says pollster Darrell Bricker.
Dramatic day on the Hill after Freeland’s resignation

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives for the morning Liberal cabinet meeting in West Block on Dec. 16, 2024. Trudeau was not in Question Period and issued no comment through the day following Chrystia Freeland’s surprise resignation from cabinet the morning she was set to present her fall economic statement as finance minister. In the wake […]
Liberals present ballooning federal deficit of $61.9-billion in latest fiscal update

The mini-budget blew past former finance minister Chrystia Freeland’s April promise to keep to a $40-billion deficit target. Freeland exited cabinet the same day she was set to present the document.