Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s former Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland could be a possible successor to Trudeau, but would inevitably face tough questions by the public, Trudeau’s former advisor Omer Aziz says.
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00:00Okay, I mean Trudeau's finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, quit in December, accusing him of
00:08political gimmicks to win back votes. Let's just talk about her a little bit more. I mean,
00:13she's served as deputy prime minister. Could she be a likely successor? And if not her,
00:18is there one name that stands out as being the one person that could potentially reverse
00:23the fortunes of the Liberal Party once it's decoupled from the image of Justin Trudeau?
00:29She could be a successor. I mean, she's been at his side since 2015, 2014, even before
00:36he came into government. She was minister of foreign affairs, minister of finance, deputy
00:42prime minister. But I think the question with her that many people are going to have is
00:47that, well, you resigned when you were going to be demoted, but you were participating
00:52in all the scandals, all the issues, all the controversies up until that moment. So why
00:57did it take until that point? If you had a principled resignation, why did it take
01:02until that moment at the very end in late December 2024 for you to resign?