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方慧蘭辭任內閣，任烏克蘭事務代表
Canada's Chrystia Freeland quits cabinet to become Ukraine envoy
Chrystia Freeland has served as a Liberal MP in Canada since 2015. In 2020, she became the country's first female finance minister.Canadian minister and member of parliament Chrystia Freeland announced on Tuesday that she will step down from Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet and will not run for re-election.
Freeland will instead take on a new role as Canada's special envoy to Ukraine, Carney said.
She has been a fixture of Canadian politics since 2015, serving as former finance and foreign affairs minister, as well as deputy prime minister. Freeland is also credited with forcing former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's exit after abruptly resigning from his cabinet last year.
She announced her resignation in a post on X, writing that she made the decision "with tremendous gratitude and a little sadness".
"I have decided to step down from cabinet today and turn the page on this chapter in my life. I do not intend to run in the next election," she said.
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In his own statement, Carney thanked Freeland "for her extraordinary service in the Cabinet of Canada's federal government over the last decade".
He added that he asked her to serve as Canada's new Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, in addition to her role as a Liberal MP.
Earlier this year, Canada committed an additional C$2bn ($1.46bn; £1bn) in military assistance to Ukraine. Carney later made a surprise visit to Kyiv in August.
Freeland, a former journalist who is of Ukrainian heritage, has long been a vocal supporter of Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia. In 2014, she was placed on a Kremlin list of westerners who were banned from entering Russia in retaliation of sanctions against Moscow.
Since May, she had been serving as Transport and Internal Trade Minister under the Liberal Carney government, overseeing efforts to dismantle internal trade barriers between provinces as Canada works to address the impact of US tariffs.
In 2020, Freeland became the first woman to be appointed as finance minister in Canada's history, where she managed Canada's financial response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
She abruptly resigned from that post in December 2024 via a letter shared publicly on X, hours before she was due to table a government fiscal update.
In the letter, Freeland called out former Prime Minister Trudeau for "costly political gimmicks" and said the two had been "at odds about the best path forward for Canada."
The resignation triggered the fall of Trudeau's political career. He later resigned as prime minister in January after nine years in office.
Freeland later ran to replace Trudeau as Liberal Party leader but lost to Carney.
She is also credited with helping renegotiate the current free trade agreement between Canada, the US and Mexico during President Donald Trump's first term in 2018. Trump later called her "toxic".
The USMCA trade deal - or CUSMA in Canada - has been credited with helping the country largely avoid a stiff 35% tariff rate imposed by Trump, who granted Canada a carve out for goods covered by the free trade agreement.
That deal is now up for another round of renegotiations in 2026.
In her post on X, Freeland said her decision to resign was not made "to spend more time with my family or because the burden of elected office is too heavy to bear".
"For me and for my wonderful husband and children, public service has been a privilege and not a sacrifice," she said.
"I am grateful for every minute, and I hope more Canadian girls and women will step up and seek the joys and rewards of elected politics for themselves and for their families."
方慧蘭辭任內閣，出任烏克蘭事務代表
RCI 2025年9月16日
聯邦交通和國內貿易部長方慧蘭（又名弗裏蘭，Chrystia Freeland）宣佈辭去內閣職務，總理卡尼將任命她為加拿大烏克蘭重建特別代表。
方慧蘭在社交媒體X上發表公開信，說她決定翻過人生這一頁，不會在下屆選舉中尋求連任。
她表示，自己是懷著無盡的感激和些許不舍做出有關決定。
信中方慧蘭強調，加拿大政府團隊取得的成就，包括她領導團隊重新談判《北美自由貿易協定》、在疫情期間保持AAA信用評級以及加拿大對烏克蘭的支持。
聯邦交通部長方慧蘭抨擊中國船廠與BC渡輪的交易。
她指出，在民主製度下，沒有人能永久擔任政治職務。
在經曆了12年美好的公職生涯後，我知道現在是時候退位讓賢，迎接新的挑戰。
盡管方慧蘭仍擔任自2015年以來代表的多倫多大學-羅斯代爾選區（University—Rosedale）議員，預計她將宣布辭職。她身邊人士透露，具體日期未定，但她正在與選區辦公室協商，以確保順利過渡。
總理卡尼在聲明中感謝她為內閣做出的傑出貢獻和奉獻精神，又指她是新任務的不二之選。
曾為七國集團財政部長、外交部長和國際貿易部長的方慧蘭，全賴她與烏克蘭及其經濟有著深厚聯係和理解，具備接手新任務的獨特優勢。
我已邀請方慧蘭在履行議員職責的同時，兼任加拿大烏克蘭重建事務新任特別代表。
特別代表的職責非隻外交性、而是政治性的。其職責將為與外國政府、銀行和私營企業合作，為烏克蘭的重建作出貢獻。
過去動蕩的一年
2013年，方慧蘭在多倫多中區（Toronto-Centre）補選中進入聯邦政壇。
10多年公職生涯中，方慧蘭曾擔任總理特魯多的得力助手多年。2017年、特朗普第一屆政府期間，她領導加拿大代表團參加《加美墨協定》（CUSMA）談判時表現突出。之後她平步青雲，於2019年獲得副總理職位，並在2020年兼任財政部長。
左起：加拿大副總理方慧蘭、墨西哥北美事務副部長塞亞德（Jesús Seade）和美國貿易代表萊特希澤在（Robert Lighthizer）在《加美墨協定》簽署後自豪地合影。
左起：加拿大副總理方慧蘭（又名弗裏蘭，Chrystia Freeland）、墨西哥北美事務副部長塞亞德（Jesús Seade）和美國貿易代表萊特希澤在（Robert Lighthizer）在《加美墨協定》簽署後自豪地合影。
方慧蘭的手腕，就連特朗普也稱她為有毒；俄羅斯亦被她惹惱，在2014年對她實施了製裁。
但2024年12月，她轟動性地辭去財政部長兼副總理職務，為自由黨引發巨大震動。當時，她抨聯邦政府的經濟管理屬代價高昂的政治噱頭。她又解釋說，自己之所以離開，是因為特魯多打算撤銷她的財政部長職務，而隻給她一個不掌管財政的內閣職位。
其辭職使特魯多政府陷入了前所未有的危機。不到一個月後，總理特魯多也宣布辭職。
之後方慧蘭與卡尼競爭自由黨領袖一職，最後方慧蘭以僅8%的得票率慘敗於卡尼。
消息人士透露，眾議院領袖麥金農（Steven MacKinnon）將接管交通部事務，勒布朗（Dominic LeBlanc）則將內貿事務納入其職責範圍。
