TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, long Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s most powerful minister, announced Monday she is resigning from the Cabinet as Trudeau faces declining popularity.
Freeland, who was also deputy prime minister, said Trudeau told her on Friday that he no longer wanted her to be finance minister and that he had offered her another role in cabinet.
But she said in her resignation letter to the prime minister that leaving cabinet was the only “fair and feasible path.”
“Over the past few weeks, you and I have been at odds over the best path forward for Canada,” Freeland said.
