Post-Budget Conversation with The Honourable Chrystia Freeland

Join Patrick Sullivan, President & CEO of the Halifax Chamber of Commerce for a Post-Budget Conversation with The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. 

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance will be joining us on Wednesday to discuss what the new budget means for Atlantic Canadian businesses as we continue to recover from the covid-19 pandemic.

Register today and submit your question!

Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance

The Honourable Chrystia Freeland is Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance

Ms. Chrystia Freeland was first elected as a Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre in July 2013. She was elected as Member of Parliament for University—Rosedale in October 2015 and re-elected in October 2019.

From 2015 to 2017, Ms. Freeland served as Canada's Minister of International Trade, overseeing the successful negotiation of Canada's free trade agreement with the European Union, CETA. From January 2017 to November 2019, she served as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. During this time she was a leading advocate for democracy, human rights, and multilateralism around the world. As Foreign Minister she also led and concluded the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

An esteemed journalist and author, the Deputy Prime Minister was born in Peace River, Alberta. She was educated at Harvard University before continuing her studies on a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford.

After beginning her career in journalism as a Ukraine-based freelance reporter for the Financial Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist, she went on to various roles at the Financial Times. She then served as deputy editor of The Globe and Mail between 1999 and 2001, before returning to the Financial Times as deputy editor and then as the United States managing editor.

In 2010, she joined Canadian-owned Thomson Reuters. She was a managing director of the company and editor of consumer news when she decided to return home and enter politics in 2013.

Ms. Freeland has written two books: Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution (2000); and Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (2012). Plutocrats is an international best-seller and won the Lionel Gelber Prize and National Business Book Award.

In 2018, the Deputy Prime Minister was recognized as Foreign Policy's Diplomat of the Year and was also awarded the Eric M. Warburg Award by Atlantik-Brücke for her achievements in strengthening transatlantic ties.

Ms. Freeland speaks Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, French, and English, and lives in Toronto with her husband and three children.