Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigns from Trudeau’s cabinet [Video]

The latest:

• Freeland says PM told her Friday he no longer wanted her to serve as finance minister.
• In letter announcing her resignation, Freeland denounced Trudeau’s ‘costly political gimmicks.’
• She will stay on as Liberal MP.
• Status of the fall economic statement is unclear.

In a shocking move, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Monday she’s resigning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet — just hours before she was set to deliver the government’s fall economic statement.

It’s a disastrous development for the government that throws its economic agenda into a tailspin and leaves a huge gap on Trudeau’s front bench at a time when Liberal Party support has collapsed in the polls.

Freeland’s jaw-dropping move to leave just before tabling the economic statement is unprecedented. The statement is supposed to be the government’s fiscal road map at a time of great uncertainty, as Canada stares down president-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threat.

In a letter to Trudeau that was subsequently …