Freeland Steps Down From Cabinet: The Epoch Times

December 16, 2024 TruthUSA

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has resigned from the Liberal cabinet.

In a letter sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Dec. 16, Freeland said Trudeau told her last week he didn’t want her to serve as finance minister anymore and offered her another cabinet position.

“Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path for me is to resign from the Cabinet,” Freeland wrote in the letter, which she published on social media.

Freeland said a minister must have the “full confidence” of the prime minister to speak on his behalf and the decision to remove her from finance makes it “clear that I no longer credibly enjoy that confidence.”

Freeland was due to deliver her Fall Economic Statement later on Dec. 16. Her letter points to areas of tension with Trudeau on how to manage the country’s finances, criticizing unspecified “costly political gimmicks.”

The Liberal government recently passed a two-month GST holiday on certain goods.