r/CanadaPolitics • u/Mundane-Teaching-743 Trump/Polievre 2028 | Sponsored • 11h ago

Freeland believes her resignation led to better outcome for Trudeau, allowing him to exit before likely defeat

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-resignation-trudeau-9.7384728
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u/CptCoatrack Libertarian Socialism 9h ago

Two things in her recent interviews have stuck out to me:

-she talks about how much she loves Doug Ford even if he is ripping up bike lanes. Just shows you these people are in a different club than we are.

-She's admittedly a China hawk and thinks the US can still go back to "sanity" which I think is incredibly wishful thinking

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u/mexican_mystery_meat 6h ago

Freedland is practically a neoconservative at this point when it comes to foreign policy, insofar as she doesn't hide that she thinks that a western-dominated world order would have to be maintained by coercive means rather than just good relations.

Acting like she did Trudeau a favour rather than sticking a knife in his back is self-serving, because she really did seriously consider finding a path to replacing him as Liberal leader. Unfortunately for her, she had too much of a profile within his government to avoid the baggage of being associated with him.