Chrystia Freeland will become Canada’s new finance minister, the first woman to take on the powerful role, CBC News has confirmed.
Freeland, former foreign affairs minister, is now deputy prime minister and intergovernmental affairs minister and in addition to juggling ,tightrope walking, chair balancing and unicycle hijinks she generally bats cleanup for whatever crisis the government finds itself and is often called upon as the designated hitter ! (no hockey analogies were available at the time of posting)
