Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Freeland leaving cabinet, won't run in next federal election

 


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From: Blanchet, Yves-François - Député <Yves-Francois.Blanchet@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Réponse automatique : Methinks 2 chiac speaking boys from NB are sporting bigger whigs n'esy pas David Myles and Yves-François Blanchet?To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

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From: Freeland, Chrystia - M.P. <Chrystia.Freeland@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks 2 chiac speaking boys from NB are sporting bigger whigs n'esy pas David Myles and Yves-François Blanchet?
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

Thank you for contacting the office of the Hon. Chrystia Freeland, Member of Parliament, University-Rosedale. Your message has been received and will be reviewed as soon as possible.

Please be aware that our office is experiencing a high volume of enquiries and may be delayed in our response.

Priority is given to constituents of University-Rosedale. Individuals outside of University-Rosedale should contact their local MP to address their concerns. You can find your local MP by searching your postal code here.

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Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks 2 chiac speaking boys from NB are sporting bigger whigs n'esy pas David Myles and Yves-François Blanchet?
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Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Automatic reply: Methinks 2 chiac speaking boys from NB are sporting bigger whigs n'esy pas David Myles and Yves-François Blanchet?
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Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Methinks 2 chiac speaking boys from NB are sporting bigger whigs n'esy pas David Myles and Yves-François Blanchet?
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From: Blanchet, Yves-François - Député <Yves-Francois.Blanchet@parl.gc.ca>
Date: Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Subject: Réponse automatique : I wonder Stevey Boy MacKinnon recalls saying "The Boys Are Back In Town" after the election in 2006
To: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

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Bonjour,

Nous avons bien reçu votre courriel et nous vous remercions d'avoir écrit à M. Yves-François Blanchet, député de Beloeil-Chambly et chef du Bloc Québécois.

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Date: Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Subject: Setting up New Office Re: I wonder Stevey Boy MacKinnon recalls saying "The Boys Are Back In Town" after the election in 2006
To: <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>

This is to acknowledge receipt of your email.  Please note that we are in the stages of setting up the new Constituency Office and will be responding to each email in due course.  During this transition period, and due to the high volume of emails received, we will do our best to respond in a timely manner.  Your patience and understanding at this time is greatly appreciated.

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Freeland leaving cabinet, won't run in next federal election

Carney appointing longtime minister as special representative for Ukraine

Longtime Liberal minister Chrystia Freeland is stepping down from cabinet and has signalled her plans to leave federal politics.

In a letter posted to social media on Tuesday, the transport and internal trade minister said she made the decision "with tremendous gratitude and a little sadness."

"I do not intend to run in the next federal election," she wrote.

"A great strength of democracy is that no one holds political office in perpetuity. After 12 fulfilling years in public life, I know that now is the right time for me to make way for others and to seek fresh challenges for myself."

Two people speak while walking through a hall with reporters around them.Prime Minister Mark Carney said Freeland would serve as a special representative to Ukraine in addition to her duties as an MP. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

In a statement, Prime Minister Mark Carney thanked his one-time Liberal leadership rival for her years of service and announced he's asked her to serve as Canada's new special representative for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Freeland has long been one of Canada's most vocal opponents of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. 

"Chrystia's versatility, raw intelligence and principled leadership have served Canadians with distinction through extraordinary challenges and changes," Carney wrote.

"Her leadership has helped to secure historic trade negotiations, to guide the response to a global pandemic, to complete early learning and child-care agreements across Canada and most recently, to remove all federal barriers to internal trade all while strongly representing her constituents as the Member of Parliament for University-Rosedale." 

Freeland has been a fixture in Canadian politics since the Liberals swept into power in 2015, and served as former prime minister Justin Trudeau's deputy. 

She's held prominent roles in the front bench, including becoming the first woman appointed as finance minister in 2020. 

She sent shock waves through Ottawa when she abruptly resigned as finance minister in December, just hours before she was set to table the fall economic statement.

At the time, she called out her own government's economic stewardship and "costly political gimmicks." 

Her exit escalated caucus pressure on Trudeau to resign, triggering a leadership race that she ran in, but that ultimately made Carney leader. The Liberals would go from 20 points behind the Conservatives to a comeback win in April's election.

WATCH | Poilievre says Freeland's trying to 'get out of town' before 'disastrous' Liberal budget: 
 
Poilievre says Freeland's trying to 'get out of town' before 'disastrous' Liberal budget
 
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he thinks Chrystia Freeland's legacy will be her cabinet resignations — both before last year's fall economic update and the Carney government's upcoming first budget.

When asked about Freeland stepping down, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said her latest move mirrored her resignation from Trudeau's front bench.

Freeland's decision came just hours before the Liberals announced Nov. 4 as the date for the next federal budget, which is expected to have a higher deficit.

"She's probably trying to get out of town and as far away as possible before this disastrous November budget comes," Poilievre told reporters.

"I don't blame her."

WATCH | Liberal, NDP MPs react to Freeland's decision: 
 
MPs react to Chrystia Freeland leaving federal politics
 
NDP MPs Jenny Kwan, Don Davies and Gord Johns and Liberal MPs Marc Miller and Greg Fergus reflected on the legacy of longtime minister Chrystia Freeland following the announcement that she is stepping down from cabinet and will not run in the next federal election.

Freeland has had a role guiding Canada's diplomatic posture, as both international trade and foreign affairs minister. She helped lead Canada's negotiating team during U.S. President Donald Trump's first term in office, landing what is now known as the CUSMA trade deal.

She's attracted ire from Trump, who called her "toxic," and from Russia, which sanctioned her in 2014.

The decision was made not "to spend more time with my family or because the burden of elected office is too heavy to bear," Freeland said in her letter.

"For me and for my wonderful husband and children, public service has been a privilege and not a sacrifice. I am grateful for every minute, and I hope more Canadian girls and women will step up and seek the joys and rewards of elected politics for themselves and for their families."

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc will absorb Freeland's internal trade duties and government House leader Steven MacKinnon will take on transport. Both ministers were sworn into their new roles in a ceremony at Rideau Hall Tuesday afternoon.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Catharine Tunney is a reporter with CBC's Parliament Hill bureau, where she covers national security and the RCMP. She worked previously for CBC in Nova Scotia. You can reach her at catharine.tunney@cbc.ca

With files from Kate McKenna

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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