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Chrystia Freeland, who helped negotiate Canada’s flexible industrial agreement with the United States and Mexico, was named the country’s prime female finance minister on Tuesday, the day after her predecessor resigned after swapping heads with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. .
Freeland, a former journalist who served as Canada’s foreign minister, is Trudeau’s best friend and will continue as deputy prime minister.
“It’s the best time to break this glass ceiling,” Freeland said, being the first to hold a difficult position.The 52-year-old is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes scholar who speaks five languages.
Trudeau appointed her to the position after Bill Morneau resigned on Monday amid disputes reported by the Trudeau administration, which have spent a lot of time on the pandemic economy, and said he was no longer the right user for the position.
“This crisis has exposed the flaws and weaknesses of our country that we will have to correct,” Trudeau said.
The Canadian government forecasts a historic deficit of C$343 billion (US$260 billion) by 2020-21 as a result of its economic and stimulus plans to combat the effects of Covid-19.On Tuesday, he said taxes would pass.
“The coronavirus is with us. It’s an exclusive challenge for the whole country,” Freeland said.”We will do whatever it takes to help the Canadians.”
Trudeau personally recruited Freeland to join his Liberal Party when it was the third party in Parliament in 2013.Freeland held a checkpoint at the Reuters news firm, but was in a position to move on after setbacks in his journalistic career, his friends said..
Freeland had made immediate progress in the past in the Financial Times, where she became head of the Moscow office when she was in her twenties when the Soviet Union collapsed.
Freeland, also deputy editor of the Toronto Globe and Mail and the Financial Times, left the latter post after a confrontation with the editor, who is familiar with a lot of audience in the United States due to her normal appearances on communication screens such as Fareed Zakaria on CNN.
He has criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin, who banned him from visiting the country in 2014 in retaliation for Western sanctions opposed to Moscow.
“Freeland’s appointment will be very popular with women,” said Nelson Wiseman, professor of political science at the University of Toronto.
“They temporarily abandoned her because she is wise and competent. He inspired Trudeau in the new NAFTA donations.It is still too early to speculate about a successor to Trudeau, but there is no doubt that lately it is the favorite of the liberal electorate and probably the liberal bench “.
Opposition parties were on Morneau’s resignation on charges that he had a clash of interests in a dispute with WE Charity, a scandal that also affected Trudeau.
Trudeau said he has recused a cabinet resolution to award a contract to We Charity to manage cash to struggling academics to locate paintings due to the pandemic. Trudeau’s wife, brother and mother earned a total of C$300,000 (US$228,000) for speaking at various WE events.
Trudeau also announced that he would suspend Parliament until 23 September, when his government will deliver a speech describing the priorities for a new parliamentary session.If the top 3 opposition parties oppose what the government describes, elections may be called.
Trudeau said Morneau needed to run in the next election.
“We want a future-oriented team,” Trudeau said.
Trudeau said he would run “absolutely” for a third term in the next election.
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