• ryper
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    3 days ago

    Freeland isn’t even Trudeau’s first finance minister to quit. Anybody remember Bill Morneau? His feelings on COVID relief sound a bit similar to Freeland’s resignation letter:

    Former federal finance minister Bill Morneau says that when it came to COVID-19 pandemic aid policy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the top advisers in his office favoured “scoring political points” over policy rationales, leading to him feeling like a “rubber stamp” ahead of his “inevitable” resignation.

    “My job of providing counsel and direction where fiscal matters were concerned had deteriorated into serving as something between a figurehead and a rubber stamp,” he writes in his new book, out on Jan. 17.

    This is about Trudeau and finance ministers, not women.

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      3 days ago

      So, is Trudeau just too fiscally liberal for his fiscally conservative finance minister picks? I mean, a good finance minister does skew fiscally conservative compared to the rest of their party, regardless of which party they are a member.

      I’m probably giving him wayyy too much credit here.

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      This is about Trudeau and finance ministers, not women.

      If it really were about the mistreatment of women, Conservatives would be defending him. So yes, absolutely not about women! LOL