“Crying was routine at cabinet meetings.” Kleenex was kept on hand for ministers overcome with emotion (Freeland doesn’t say exactly who or why) and some would get hugs from the PM.
At the same time, she was appalled when Trudeau openly bullied people around him and policed the language used at the cabinet table. At one point “a very progressive female colleague” casually referred to something as “crazy,” earning her a “long, harsh public scolding from Trudeau” on the grounds it was insulting to people with mental health issues. Ministers were told to call things “bananas” instead.
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>”Freeland now says she left Trudeau’s cabinet a year “or maybe two years” too late.”
>”Jean Chrétien, she writes, was one of those urging her to resign, knowing that would force Trudeau out. Loyalty to her boss was fine, he told her, but she had “a responsibility to the Liberal party and to Canada”
lol
Relevance: Trudeau was running the liberal government for a G7 nation for ~1 decade, and this article outlines new information/anecdotes coming from his deputee regarding the way things were run
at least Trudeau’s geunine
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At one point “a very progressive female colleague” casually referred to something as “crazy,” earning her a “long, harsh public scolding from Trudeau” on the grounds it was insulting to people with mental health issues. Ministers were told to call things “bananas” instead.”
…. Based
Trudeau will not have survived a week in an Australian Labor Party caucus