Juno News - December 16, 2024


Chrystia Freeland RESIGNS as Deputy PM and Finance Minister


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6 minutes

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160.18646

Word Count

1,008

Sentence Count

1

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 all right major breaking news out of ottawa this morning the liberal cabinet is imploding on itself
00:00:07.020 yesterday we got news that housing minister sean fraser would be announcing his resignation
00:00:11.560 from cabinet this morning we got that but that news was trumped by the biggest domino to fall
00:00:18.620 yet christia freeland the deputy prime minister and now former finance minister is officially
00:00:24.320 out of cabinet with this announcement on twitter today in her resignation letter to justin trudeau
00:00:30.680 which she posted to social media this morning she writes on friday you told me you no longer want me
00:00:36.920 to serve as your finance minister and offered me another position in the cabinet upon reflection i
00:00:42.720 have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from the cabinet to be
00:00:48.560 effective a minister must speak on behalf of the prime minister and with his full confidence in
00:00:53.320 making your decision you made clear that i no longer credibly enjoy that confidence and possess
00:00:57.820 the authority that comes with it for the past number of weeks you and i have found ourselves
00:01:02.460 at odds about the best path forward for canada our country today faces a grave challenge the incoming
00:01:08.520 administration in the united states is pursuing a policy of aggressive economic nationalism including
00:01:13.600 a threat of 25 percent tariffs in her statement she takes a shot at justin trudeau saying we need to
00:01:20.040 take that threat extremely seriously that means keeping our fiscal powder dry today so we have
00:01:25.640 the reserves we may need for a coming tariff war that means eschewing costly political gimmicks which we
00:01:31.640 can ill afford and which will make canadians doubt that we recognize the gravity of the moment now
00:01:37.320 freeland's departure is not surprising but the timing certainly is in the lead up to christmas the day that
00:01:43.960 christia freeland is set to announce and to provide canada's fall economic statement she is out of
00:01:50.040 cabinet we have known for many weeks that the prime minister was likely planning to replace christia
00:01:54.680 freeland with the unelected former bank of canada and former bank of england governor mark carney now
00:02:00.920 today that looks certainly more likely now we know that on friday justin trudeau essentially fired
00:02:06.760 christia freeland from the finance minister position and tried to offer her a soft landing position
00:02:12.760 somewhere lower down the pecking order in in the cabinet which makes christia freeland's answer
00:02:17.480 to that global mail journalist on friday in which she appeared emotional she appeared almost on the
00:02:22.120 verge of tears all the more interesting take a look at this hi there it's laura stone globe and
00:02:27.080 mail we've all agreed to do one question so everyone can get in um minister freeland we've been
00:02:32.120 reporting all week about tension between your office and the prime minister's office over the fiscal
00:02:37.400 policy in this country we've said that the prime minister is again in talks with mark carney to
00:02:43.160 join the government and the prime minister appears unwilling to personally defend you in public how
00:02:49.560 can you stay in the government when the prime minister continually tries to cut you off at the knees like
00:02:55.160 that and will you fight back against this effort to replace you well thank you for the question uh
00:03:08.840 for me it is a huge privilege that i do not take for granted to serve canada and canadians every single
00:03:18.840 day it's a big deal there are kids here who went to school with my daughter who are great young
00:03:26.760 innovators and i'm really proud to be able to offer them something that will help their company i'm proud
00:03:37.000 and grateful to be able to serve in the cabinet of the prime minister and i really don't spend a lot of
00:03:46.200 time focusing on ottawa gossip my focus is on doing what i can to serve canada and canadians
00:03:55.880 in what's a really challenging time for our country clearly emotional voice cracking you can see that
00:04:02.440 the liberal cabinet is imploding now just before christia freeland's bombshell breaking news announcement
00:04:09.400 we got the announcement from sean fraser the former housing minister that he too was going to be
00:04:15.400 resigning his position remember sean fraser is largely responsible for the worst immigration
00:04:21.480 policies this country has ever seen for being responsible for the international student debacle
00:04:26.920 in this country in which over a million international students were in this country which resulted in
00:04:33.080 international students protesting across this country demanding permanent residency and it was sean
00:04:38.520 fraser's policies as immigration minister that soured this country on immigration which completely flipped
00:04:46.360 canada's consensus on immigration he was then shuffled into the housing minister job another very important
00:04:54.520 position which he too happened to fail for example just look at canada's housing starts with sean
00:05:00.040 fraser as the minister housing starts have decreased in this country despite the fact that our population
00:05:06.600 has been increasing at a rate faster than we've ever seen it two massive resignations out of justin
00:05:12.200 trudeau's cabinet this morning on monday the day of the fall economic statements release this is going
00:05:18.360 to get very interesting the question now is how much longer does justin trudeau have left as prime minister
00:05:25.080 many believed christia freeland to be the brains of the operation to be the intellectual force for justin
00:05:32.360 trudeau which is shocking to believe but that is what people believe christia freeland however in
00:05:37.080 her statement did commit to fighting for re-election in university rosedale for her toronto
00:05:43.720 seat so christia freeland no longer deputy prime minister no longer the minister of finance she is
00:05:49.480 still an mp and after all she does still have that coveted board of trustees seat at the world economic
00:05:56.120 forum now if there's any more major breaking news this week we will be back with another update but
00:06:01.160 for now that is all we've got for you today on the show thank you so much for tuning in
00:06:04.760 my name is harrison valkner and this is ratioed