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Christina Alexandra Freeland PC MP (born August 2, 1968) is a Canadian politician serving as the tenth deputy prime minister of Canada since 2019 and as the minister of finance since 2020. A member of the Liberal Party, Freeland represents the Toronto riding of University—Rosedale in the House of Commons. She was first appointed as a Cabinet minister following the 2015 election and is the first woman to hold the finance portfolio.
Chrystia Freeland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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10th Deputy Prime Minister of Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office November 20, 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Anne McLellan[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minister of Finance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office August 18, 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Bill Morneau | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Christina Alexandra Freeland (1968-08-02) August 2, 1968 (age 55)[1] Peace River, Alberta, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Liberal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Graham Bowley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence(s) | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Harvard University (BA) St Antony's College, Oxford (MSt) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Awards | Rhodes Scholarship (1993) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born in Peace River, Alberta, Freeland studied Russian history and literature at Harvard University, and earned a master's degree in Slavonic studies from Oxford University. She began her career in journalism working in a variety of editorial positions at the Financial Times, The Globe and Mail and Reuters, becoming managing director of the latter. Freeland is the author of Sale of the Century, a 2000 book about Russia's journey from Communist state rule to capitalism,[2] and Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else in 2012.[3][4] Plutocrats was the winner of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize for non-fiction reporting on foreign affairs.[5] It also won the 2013 National Business Book Award for the most outstanding Canadian business-related book.
Freeland was elected to represent Toronto Centre in the House of Commons following a 2013 by-election and would sit as a regular member of Parliament (MP) until 2015, when her government won its first mandate and she was appointment to Cabinet. Freeland has held a number of portfolios over her tenure in government, beginning as minister of international trade following the 2015 election, where she played an instrumental role in successfully negotiating the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union,[6] earning her a promotion to minister of foreign affairs in 2017. She assumed her current role as deputy prime minister following the 2019 election where she also became minister of intergovernmental affairs until 2020, when she was made finance minister. Political commentators have given Freeland the informal title of "Minister of Everything",[7][8][9][10][11] and she has emerged as the most influential Cabinet minister of Trudeau's premiership.[12]