Chrystia Freeland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Chrystia Freeland

Canadian politician and writer

Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1968

Place of Birth: Peace River, Alberta, Canada

Profession: writer, politician, journalist, opinion journalist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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About Chrystia Freeland

  • Christina Alexandra "Chrystia" Freeland (born August 2, 1968) is a Canadian writer, journalist, and politician who is serving as the tenth and current Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and thirteenth Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs since 2019.
  • She served as Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2019, and Minister of International Trade from 2015 to 2017. She worked in a variety of editorial positions at the Financial Times, The Globe and Mail and Thomson Reuters (where she was the managing director and editor for consumer news), before announcing her intention to run for the Liberal Party nomination in the by-election to replace Bob Rae as the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre.
  • After winning the Liberal nomination on September 15, 2013, she was elected to parliament in the November 25, 2013 by-election.
  • Appointed to the Cabinet of Canada as Minister of International Trade on November 4, 2015, Freeland was named that month as one of Toronto's 50 most influential by Toronto Life magazine.
  • On January 10, 2017, Freeland was appointed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, succeeding Stéphane Dion.
  • She served through the end of the First Trudeau Ministry and was replaced by Francois-Philippe Champagne following the 2019 Canadian Federal Election. Freeland is the author of Sale of the Century, a 2000 book about Russia's journey from communism to capitalism and Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else in 2012.
  • Plutocrats was the winner of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize for non-fiction reporting on foreign affairs.
  • It also won the 2013 National Business Book Award for the most outstanding Canadian business-related book.

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