Globe: Freeland’s resignation upends the Commons, sending shock waves throughout Ottawa
Mr. Trudeau, in a call that a source told The Globe and Mail lasted an hour, told her that after she delivered the fall economic statement, he wanted to take the finance portfolio away from her in exchange for a job overseeing U.S. relations. It would come with no staff, no money and no authority.
No thanks, Ms. Freeland responded.
NYT: His Family Voted to Support Trump’s Deportation Plan. That Includes Him.
Sky had spent much of his adulthood preparing to protect his family in a crisis. He’d learned survival tactics in the Army and had trained in hand-to-hand combat as a Georgia corrections officer. In the last few years, as he sensed the country becoming more polarized and volatile, he’d built up a small collection of firearms and a cache of emergency supplies. He’d been anticipating a moment when the government might rise up against his family, but this particular crisis was one he’d helped to create.
“I’m going to be straight with you,” he told Jaime. “I voted for Trump. I believe in a lot of what he says.”
“I figured as much,” Jaime said. “You and just about everyone else around here.”
“It’s about protecting our rights as a sovereign country,” Sky said. “We need to shut down the infiltration on the border. It’s not about you.”
“It is about me,” Jaime said. “That’s the thing I don’t understand.”
Globe: Trudeau told Freeland that Carney would replace her as finance minister over Zoom
The sources say Mr. Trudeau was direct in the call, telling her that by Tuesday morning she would no longer be finance minister and that the job would be handed to Mr. Carney, former governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England. The Prime Minister still expected her to deliver the economic and fiscal update on Monday that showed she would miss the government’s promised $40.1-billion deficit target by more than $20-billion.
Ms. Freeland resigned Monday morning, before delivering the update.
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