Gurmalkiat Singh Kahlon
Vancouver, December 17
Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, who was considered to be one of the Prime Minister’s close associates, announced her resignation the other day, prompting speculation about the future of the Trudeau government in political circles. With this crisis, which arose 10 months before the general elections, hopes for mid-term elections in the country are starting to form. The announcement of the finance minister’s resignation hours before he was due to give a detailed account of the financial situation in the House of Commons yesterday has created problems for the Justin Trudeau government. Of course, Public Safety Minister Dominique LeBlanc was sworn in as Finance Minister in place of Freeland, but the discussions about the future of the Trudeau government and the country did not make a difference.
The sour talks between Justin Trudeau and Freeland had been going on for several days, but the reason for the sudden resignation is considered to be the lack of financial arrangements with the government. There was no mention of this 250 million fund (promise) in the latest financial information to be given on Monday in the autumn parliamentary session, as the budget deficit has already reached 62 billion. It is also learned that the minority government did not even have the support of any other party in Parliament to pass this finance bill. For a few months, the government is also having to bear those expenses, which it was not aware of. After US President-elect Donald Trump’s comments about 25 percent tariffs and border security, Canada has suddenly had to arrange more than a billion dollars for modern materials and naval augmentation to strengthen border security.
Meanwhile, in a survey conducted by an independent organization, 77 percent of Canadians have expressed the opinion of handing over the power of the country to another party by holding immediate elections. In a survey conducted by the same organization in September, Justin Trudeau’s approval rating dropped by 5 percentage points to 21 percent, while Tory leader Pierre Polivar’s approval rating as Prime Minister has reached 77 percent.
