DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A top official within Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet abruptly resigned, citing growing policy disagreements on how the country should respond to tariff threats posed by President-elect Donald Trump and his “America First” economic agenda.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland officially resigned from Trudeau’s Cabinet on Monday, according to a letter she posted publicly and delivered to the prime minister. Freeland’s letter—which came just hours before she was supposed to deliver an address on border security with the U.S.—marks the latest turmoil to beset Trudeau’s government as he deals with a more adversarial partner in the incoming Trump administration and his Liberal Party remains beleaguered with poor poll numbers.
“On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your Finance Minister and…