Chrystia Freeland exits Cabinet of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

TORONTO AP Chrystia Freeland whose abrupt resignation as finance minister last year forced Justin Trudeau s exit as Canada s prime minister resigned Tuesday from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mark Carney In a letter announcing her departure as minister of conveyance and internal contract Freeland disclosed she will not run in the next balloting but added she s not leaving to spend more time with her family With tremendous gratitude and a little sadness I have decided to step down from Cabinet currently and turn the page on this chapter in my life Freeland disclosed Carney declared Freeland will serve as Canada s new special representative for the reconstruction of Ukraine a newly created position outside Cabinet in addition to her responsibilities as a member of Parliament Freeland lost the Liberal Party leadership to Carney in March but returned to Cabinet as his delivery and internal contract minister She was Trudeau s preponderance powerful minister serving as both deputy prime minister and finance minister but her abrupt resignation as finance minister and deputy prime minister last December forced Trudeau to eventually say he was resigning as prime minister and party leader Freeland then ran for the party leadership but received just of the vote After she resigned as finance minister and deputy prime minister U S President Donald Trump called her totally toxic and not at all conducive to making deals Freeland was Canada s point person when the U S Canada and Mexico renegotiated their free exchange deal during the first Trump administration Freeland who is of Ukrainian heritage has also been a staunch supporter of Ukraine in its war against Russia The former journalist has been a frequent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who banned her from traveling to the country in in retaliation for Western sanctions against Moscow The -year-old Harvard graduate and Rhodes scholar speaks five languages and has influential friends around the world As she takes the decision to step down from the Ministry I would like to thank Chrystia Freeland for her extraordinary arrangement in the Cabinet of Canada s federal regime over the past decade Carney stated in a declaration Robert Bothwell a professor of Canadian history and international relations at the University of Toronto disclosed Freeland should be credited for Trudeau s exit at a time when the Liberals looked like they were headed for sure defeat Her instincts were good She pressed the button and Trudeau exploded through the roof Bothwell commented Carney replaced Trudeau after a leadership contest and won the federal voting process capping a stunning turnaround in fortunes fueled by Trump s annexation threats and commerce war Bothwell called Freeland a strength of the Trudeau tenure She supplied a few of the gravitas that Trudeau lacked Bothwell disclosed adding that she wasn t too popular among her fellow Liberal lawmakers given the leadership contest that she lost to Carney She obviously wasn t too popular so she seemed to lack a certain amount of common touch he reported Source