-interesting article on CNN about Chrystia Freeland:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/ameri...tam/index.html
Although I don't like her work as the former Minister of Finance, even CNN mentions her good negotiating work in protecting Canada's interests during the last round of negotiations for the free trade agreement with the U.S. and Mexico.
-from the article:
During the first Trump administration, Freeland – then foreign minister – engaged in high-profile clashes with the United States over Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada.
She was closely involved in the arduous negotiations to revise the longstanding North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which Trump has indicated he wants to renegotiate yet again.
“Freeland had probably the highest profile of any cabinet minister beyond the prime minister,” Nelson Wiseman, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, told CNN.
“Canada basically didn’t give the US anything in those negotiations,” Wiseman told CNN. “Trump essentially rolled over because in the renegotiation of NAFTA, for Trump, image was everything.”
Freeland has since become a personal target for Trump, who recently criticized her as “totally toxic and not at all conducive to making deals.”
Freeland has said Trump acted as a “bully” during negotiations after Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner criticized her own negotiating tactics in his memoir.
That's the one thing that I like about Freeland in terms of her negotiating skills.
Trump can call her anything he wants to insult her. Freeland is not intimidated by a bully. She did not back down to any of Trump's demands during the last round of negotations of the free trade agreement. Props to her for standing up for Canada.
