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.
The Prime Minister still expected Freeland to deliver the fall economic update on Monday, sources say. As of Tuesday, Mr. Carney had not taken up the offer
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The Globe and Mail is not identifying the officially unofficial Liberal Party sources who were not authorized to publicly discuss what transpired in talks between Mr. Trudeau and Ms. Freeland, etc…same old same old.
Just hours before she was due to give her fall economic statement, she quit.
The finance minister is an unlikely champion of the Chicago Way, but she has just pulled off a coup that may end up toppling this government
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Mr. Carney did not take up the offer. After Ms. Freeland resigned, the Prime Minister named
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, a close friend, as Finance Minister ‘cuz Frankie Bubbles said “Nope” & the Randy’s (Randy B, Other Randy, Cocaine Randy, Indigenous Randy, Métis Randy, etc…) had already shuffled out, & somebody had to.
While Freeland rightly left cabinet due to the disloyalty shown to her by Trudeau, it does not absolve her poor record as finance minister. Had Freeland actually delivered the fall economic statement (FES) to the House of Commons, she would have been forced to present a deficit just short of $62 billion.
It’s not exactly as if the Liberal government’s $62-billion deficit went unnoticed on Monday, but amid the chaos touched off by the resignation of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland it was easier to ignore the underlying question: How in hell does a government overshoot its spending target by...
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When the Conservatives form a majority government, they will be faced with the Herculean challenge of shoring up the budget, and this will be no easy task.
This Liberal government has had no foresight, caution or prudence when it comes to spending
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