Oct 22, 2026 · 39 min · 9 segments
First, Chrystia Freeland reveals the embarrassing truth about Trudeau cabinet meetings and other details from inside the Trudeau government. Second, Albertans voted decisively to remain in Canada…
Jonathon Van MarenHostSo in a revelation that manages to be both shocking, but also somehow not surprising at all, former finance minister and deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland has published a tell-all memoir.
Although she probably didn't tell all because the stuff that's in this memoir about Justin Trudeau, about her liberal colleagues, is pretty wild.
And again, I'm not surprised, but I'm still shocked because one of the things she puts in her memoir is that weeping and bullying were routine incidents.
So her new memoir, Unreliable Boyfriend, an insider's view of dealing with a chaotic superpower, plutocrats, and other complicated people, was published last week.
And the unreliable boyfriend bit there is intended to be a reference to President Donald Trump and the ongoing economic negotiations.
She very famously is the cabinet minister who resigned and stuck the knife in him on the way out, which kind of triggered the slow collapse of his premiership.
But her account actually does include a robust defense of the Trudeau team, but it doesn't really work because she needs to defend the team that she helped lead for a decade.
But she also reveals that emotional incontinence was basically a defining feature of the government that she helped to lead.
Kleenex was kept on hand in cabinet meetings for ministers, that is, cabinet ministers overcome with emotion.
She doesn't say who or why, and many of these people would openly get hugs from the Prime Minister.
At the same time, so there's the weeping, she's appalled because Trudeau very openly bullied people around him.
At one point, she says a quote, very progressive female colleague casually referred to something as crazy, which earned her a long, harsh public scolding from Trudeau on the grounds that it was insulting to people with mental health issues.
Trudeau then instructed the cabinet ministers to refer to things as bananas instead.
So in a revelation that manages to be both shocking, but also somehow not surprising at all, former finance minister and deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland has published a tell-all memoir.
Although she probably didn't tell all because the stuff that's in this memoir about Justin Trudeau, about her liberal colleagues, is pretty wild.
And again, I'm not surprised, but I'm still shocked because one of the things she puts in her memoir is that weeping and bullying were routine incidents.
So her new memoir, Unreliable Boyfriend, an insider's view of dealing with a chaotic superpower, plutocrats, and other complicated people, was published last week.
And the unreliable boyfriend bit there is intended to be a reference to President Donald Trump and the ongoing economic negotiations.
She very famously is the cabinet minister who resigned and stuck the knife in him on the way out, which kind of triggered the slow collapse of his premiership.
But her account actually does include a robust defense of the Trudeau team, but it doesn't really work because she needs to defend the team that she helped lead for a decade.
But she also reveals that emotional incontinence was basically a defining feature of the government that she helped to lead.
Kleenex was kept on hand in cabinet meetings for ministers, that is, cabinet ministers overcome with emotion.
She doesn't say who or why, and many of these people would openly get hugs from the Prime Minister.
At the same time, so there's the weeping, she's appalled because Trudeau very openly bullied people around him.
At one point, she says a quote, very progressive female colleague casually referred to something as crazy, which earned her a long, harsh public scolding from Trudeau on the grounds that it was insulting to people with mental health issues.
Trudeau then instructed the cabinet ministers to refer to things as bananas instead.
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