BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20201204T160000Z DTEND:20201204T164500Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:A Conversation with Chrystia Freeland - The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance DESCRIPTION:Join Patrick Sullivan\, President & CEO of the Halifax Chamber of Commerce for a conversation with Chrystia Freeland\, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. \n\n\n\nThe Deputy Prime Minister is releasing the Fall Economic Statement this week and she will be joining us on Friday to discuss what this means for Atlantic Canadian businesses as we continue to move forward through the covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\n\nRegister today and submit your question!\n \n\n\n\nChrystia Freeland\, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance\n\n\n\nThe Honourable Chrystia Freeland is Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance\n\n\n\nMs. 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.\n\n\n\nFrom 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.\n\n\n\nAn 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.\n\n\n\nAfter 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.\n\n\n\nIn 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.\n\n\n\nMs. 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.\n\n\n\nIn 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-Br cke for her achievements in strengthening transatlantic ties.\n\n\n\nMs. Freeland speaks Russian\, Ukrainian\, Italian\, French\, and English\, and lives in Toronto with her husband and three children. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: