Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks to media prior to delivering Budget 2024 on Tuesday, April 16 in Ottawa.
Calls are growing from within the Liberal caucus for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down as party leader — and some have pegged Chrystia Freeland as their choice to replace him.Chrystia Freeland, at the time Canada's finance minister and deputy prime minister, speaks to reporters prior to delivering the 2024 federal budget, in Ottawa on April 16.
He said his previous support stemmed from the lack of a "viable and reassuring alternative" but that Freeland has now filled that void. Political pundits have also been discussing the merits of newly appointed Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and former housing minister Sean Fraser before he stepped down from that position just prior to Freeland's resignation.
On Tuesday, Freeland wrote a letter to her supporters thanking them. She ended the letter with a message — "this will not be the end of the road" — that ramped up speculation about her own leadership ambitions. A biography of Freeland was then released on Friday. The book was originally set to publish in February, but author Catherine Tsalikis said the events of the past week changed the timeline.WATCH | Author of biography on Freeland says loyalty important to Liberal MP:Catherine Tsalikis, author of the new book Chrystia, a biography of Chrystia Freeland, discusses her reaction to Freeland’s resignation earlier this week.
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