Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is still hanging on in Canada but there are fresh signs that he and his party are in trouble. Today, his Finance Minister unexpectedly resigned just hours before she was supposed to roll out a new budget plan.
In a shocking move, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Monday she’s resigning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, just hours before she was set to deliver the government’s fall economic statement.
It’s a disastrous development that throws the government’s economic agenda into a tailspin and leaves a huge gap on Trudeau’s front bench at a time when Liberal Party support has collapsed in the polls.
Freeland’s move to leave just before tabling the economic statement — the government’s fiscal road map at a time of great uncertainty, as Canada stares down president-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threat — is…
