Back in 2018 — after her star turn as the minister who took on Donald Trump — Chrystia Freeland was, in Justin Trudeau’s words, “exactly the right person to do what she’s doing.”
“Quite frankly, there probably isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t thank my lucky stars for having been able to convince her to leave her great job in New York to run in an uncertain byelection where I couldn’t even guarantee she was going to win the nomination, and then come to sit with the third party in the House,” Trudeau told me back then.
“Because she was the kind of person I knew Canada needed serving within Parliament and hopefully serving within government.”
An acclaimed journalist and author, Freeland was the first star candidate recruited to the Liberal Party by Trudeau and his team in 2013. She became an early proof point for his leadership. And her writing on economic …