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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland receives applause from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and other members of the Liberal Party after she presented the federal budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Yet another woman thrown under the Trudeau motorcade.
But how long before the wheels fall off this thing altogether and it crashes for good?
“On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your finance minister and offered me another position in the cabinet,” Chrystia Freeland wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that she posted to X. “Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from the cabinet.”
And just like that, a government that is already in freefall and drowning in a $61.9-billion annual deficit with no plan to pay it has a prime minister who is clinging to power with no lieutenants left to prop him up.
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@JustinTrudeau is fighting on — with a big hug to his former babysitter Domenic Leblanc who has been brought into babysit a free-falling government and its $62-billion deficit economic update. All this with GG Mary Simon at Rideau Hall moments ago pic.twitter.com/S1UWntywMH
By the end of the day, the question of who would take the tricky finance job was answered when Trudeau named his former babysitter Domenic Leblanc to the post.
Loyalty seems to be the biggest asset the new minister offers. He presented a message that everything is normal and it’s business as usual as they move forward.
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