Canada’s finance minister resigns as unpopular Trudeau faces biggest test of his political career

Associated Press

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has announced she is resigning from the Cabinet. Freeland has long been Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s most powerful minister. She was also deputy prime minister. Freeland said that Trudeau had told her Friday that he no longer wanted her to serve as finance minister and that he offered her another role in the Cabinet. But she said in her resignation letter that the only “honest and viable path” was to leave the Cabinet. The Cabinet shakeup comes as Trudeau struggles with declining popularity and raises questions about how much longer he can stay in his job.