Posted on 08/18/2020 7:40:33 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named his close ally and deputy Chrystia Freeland as finance minister.
She replaces Bill Morneau who resigned amid friction with Trudeau over government spending amid pandemic.
Freeland, 52, a former journalist and foreign minister, on Tuesday became Canada’s first female finance minister, a day after Bill Morneau resigned. She also keeps her job as deputy prime minister. “It’s about time that we broke that glass ceiling,’’ Freeland said. […]
Freeland will now be tasked with reviving an economy crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the budget deficit this fiscal year forecast to hit C$343.2 billion ($253.4 billion, €218.7 billion). That would be the largest shortfall since World War II.
“We need a long term plan for recovery, a plan that addresses head-on the fundamental gaps that this pandemic has unmasked,” Trudeau told a news conference. Canada should embrace “bold new solutions,” he said, citing the need to do a better job of protecting the vulnerable and greening an economy that relies heavily on fossil fuel exports. …
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Good God! Proof that Canada has a dangerous shortage of plastic surgeons.
Put her on a crash starvation diet.
This woman seconds that.
My eyes! I’ll never heal!
She was in a foreign policy position that favored China.
I assume she’ll do even more to subject Canada to China in her new position.
Looking at her pose, I’m guessing she does a bunch of “ positions”.
LOLOL
“I’ve got fudge!”
Lol, that’s great.
;)
She has zero financial education:
She received her bachelor of arts degree in Russian history and literature from Harvard University and a master of studies degree in Slavonic Studies from St Antony’s College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1993.
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