OttawaHush calls to ex-ambassadors: That old familiar feelingPaul Wells: Get a second opinion, they said. It’s an election environment, they said. Where have we heard that before?
OttawaFreeland responds—very carefully—to Trump’s remarks on the Huawei caseThe foreign minister took her time before cautiously pushing back against comments that ’seek to politicize the extradition process’
OttawaChrystia Freeland: The minister of being everywhere at onceVoted this year’s hardest-working MP, Freeland spent most of the past year effectively doing two ministerial jobs at the same time
OttawaA new poll on the USMCA suggests Canadians are feeling deal-makers’ remorseMore respondents were disappointed with the deal than pleased with it, meaning a presumptive plus for the Liberals could be a liability
OttawaChrystia Freeland and the art of the dealSpread thin and up against a bullying opponent, Chrystia Freeland saved NAFTA and emerged as the politician to watch in Ottawa. Now what?
WashingtonJustin Trudeau speaks on new NAFTA: Live videoAfter Donald Trump spent about an hour praising the new continental trade deal, the PM and his foreign minister take to a podium in Ottawa
CanadaHow NAFTA was saved: The bitter fight and the final breakthroughIt started with a demand from Donald Trump and seemed like a zero-sum game. John Geddes on the long, divisive fight and the last minute deal.
OttawaChrystia Freeland’s most important sparring partner isn’t Donald TrumpThe U.S. president says he doesn’t like Canada’s foreign minister, but the more interesting dynamic is the contrast between Freeland and Robert Lighthizer, Trump’s trade czar
OpinionChristine Blasey Ford, Chrystia Freeland and a bunch of angry menScott Gilmore: In both the NAFTA negotiations and the Kavanaugh case, there has been a stark contrast in behaviour between the sexes
PoliticsWhat if Donald Trump has a point with Chrystia Freeland?Andrew MacDougall: It is possible that by going to Washington to needle Trump, Freeland’s tactics have not been helping Canada’s cause