Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s many woes include accusations of sexism, as the self-described “proud feminist” tried to shift blame for his policy failures to his trade minister Chrystia Freeland, who resigned from his Cabinet this week rather than accept a humiliating demotion.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has been fending off no-confidence votes and calls for his resignation for months, found his position increasingly perilous on Monday following the resignation of his deputy prime minister and minister of finance, Chrystia Freeland.
President-elect Donald Trump trolled Canada and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after the country’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned, stating that the “Great State of Canada is stunned.”
Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, long Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s most powerful and loyal minister, announced Monday she was resigning from the Cabinet as Trudeau struggles with declining popularity.
Canadian Conservative candidate Don Stewart won a close election on Monday in Toronto-St.Paul’s, taking a seat that has been held by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party for the past 30 years.
Three days after the release of a bombshell report that accused some lawmakers of “wittingly assisting foreign state actors” in their efforts to control domestic politics, the Canadian government has offered no firm answer on whether politicians who acted as agents of foreign powers would be permitted to run for office again or not.
Giving a standing ovation to a Nazi soldier in the Canadian Parliament is ‘deeply embarrassing’ for the nation, Trudeau conceded.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declined to publicize the evidence for his allegations of murder against the Indian government on Thursday, but he said the evidence was copious and called on India to cooperate with the investigation into Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s death.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Saturday despite political scandals and raging wildfires at home.
President Joe Biden and others in his administration allegedly pressured Justin Trudeau to shut down the ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland called on Canadians to consider cancelling streaming services to help ease the burden of inflation.
Canada has proposed a two-year prohibition on foreigners buying real estate, in a potential shot across the bow against Communist China.
Far-Left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is targeting crowdfunding platforms and cryptocurrency transactions under Canada’s “terrorist financing” rules after the Freedom Convoy raised millions of dollars in support of its cause.
The Chinese embassy to Canada on Monday claimed that a minor “contractual” issue caused a million Chinese N95 masks exported to Canada last month to be defective and useless. The Chinese claimed the contractual issue has been addressed. Canadian officials were literally left speechless by the embassy’s breezy statement.
Canadian MPs have voted to suspend parliament over fears of the spread of coronavirus just a day after PM Trudeau went into isolation.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday that the United States is working to secure the freedom of two Canadians held prisoner by Communist China. Pompeo stressed that Meng Wanzhou, an executive of China’s Huawei telecom company held by Canada for rendition to the U.S. to face fraud charges, will not be used as a bargaining chip in the American trade war with China. China, meanwhile, ordered Canada to release Meng if it wants relations with Beijing to improve in any meaningful way.
There was much anticipation over the expected rivalry between the United States and China at a global security conference in Munich over the weekend, given a sense among global elites that the U.S. is withdrawing from the world, and China is growing in stature.
Longtime Washington insider David Gergen sharply criticized President Trump’s approach to foreign policy on Thursday but warned Davos that “discontented voters” will still be there even after the Trump presidency.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday shrugged off the international outcry against the death sentence abruptly imposed on accused Canadian drug smuggler Robert Schellenberg, insisting that China is “not worried in the slightest” about criticism from Ottawa or anywhere else.
Canada’s government revealed on Thursday that China has detained 13 of its citizens since the arrest in Vancouver of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou last month. Chinese officials subsequently released at least eight of those Canadians.
Trump took aim at unfair trade practices in a series of tweets after the U.S. and Canada failed to reach Friday’s deadline to replace NAFTA.
“Mexico has made some significant concessions which will be really good for Canadian workers,” Chrystia Freeland said.
