Chrystia Freeland uniquely well-placed to take on Canada’s response to Russian invasion of Ukraine
OTTAWA—Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is the woman the prime minister seems to turn to for everything.
The former journalist has been on the front-line of Canada’s response to a wave of troubles since Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government first came to power.
First, it was Donald Trump and the president’s abandonment of American global leadership. Freeland was tapped as Trudeau’s trade minister, then she graduated to foreign minister, as Canada grappled with Trump’s hostility to the free exchange of North American goods.
Then the pandemic hit, and Freeland was elevated to finance minister, where she now oversees a massive deficit and the ongoing challenges of high inflation, funding the shift to a green economy, and persistent U.S. protectionism.
Now, in her