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  1. Mar 27, 2024 · Here’s what’s behind it. Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland are on a mission. Here’s what’s behind it. It is all part of a pre-game show meant to highlight major themes of the coming ...

    • How Freeland Gave Trudeau Early Credibility
    • Freeland's New York Connections
    • A Baggage-Free Proxy For Trudeau

    It's the culmination of a political career that began six years ago when Trudeau and his top advisers recruited Freeland to run in a by-election in Toronto Centre. Trudeau had become Liberal leader just six months earlier and Freeland became his first star candidate — the first evidence that Trudeau could attract smart and accomplished people to se...

    When Trump won the presidency, Trudeau promoted her to foreign affairs (awkwardly shuffling Stéphane Dion aside to clear the way). It was Freeland's connections in New York that first put Trudeau's team in touch with Trump's people, including Jared Kushner. Behind closed doors, she sat across the table from Robert Lighthizer, Trump's proudly protec...

    If there is to be a fight over equalization — one that Alberta and Saskatchewan seem to be agitating for — Freeland will be a valuable representative and negotiator. She carries none of Trudeau's baggage into any debate with western premiers (as she is fond of noting, she is an Albertan by birth) and could offer a new voice to those in Calgary and ...

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  3. On November 4, 2015, newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chose Freeland as minister of international trade in his first Cabinet. She was involved in negotiations leading up to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), between Canada and the European Union, former prime minister Stephen Harper's legacy project.

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  4. Aug 18, 2020 · Chrystia Freeland is one of PM Justin Trudeau's most trusted ministers. Canada's deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland has been named finance minister following a Cabinet shuffle.

  5. Apr 20, 2021 · Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gives Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland the thumbs up after she delivers the federal budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Monday April 19, 2021. (Sean ...

  6. Aug 18, 2020 · Justin Trudeau has named deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland as Canada’s new finance minister, putting her in charge of steering the country through its economic recovery from the ...

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