Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland played down speculation her job may be at risk, saying she and other cabinet ministers as well as Liberal MPs are spending the summer listening to Canadians.
Other criticism includes that Ms. Freeland is not doing enough to win over members of the Liberal caucus, The Globe reported. One scenario discussed in the PMO was to shuffle Ms. Freeland to foreign affairs if former central banker Mark Carney could be lured into the government as finance minister. “We have complete confidence in Chrystia Freeland as the finance minister,” he said. “Chrystia Freeland has done a great job and there isn’t a singe person in my caucus who’d say anything differently.”