Trump Says Freeland’s Departure Is Better for ‘Making Deals’

(Clockwise from top L) Then-Mexican Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal; U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer; Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; U.S. President Donald Trump; and Mexican President Pena Nieto participate in a signing ceremony for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Nov. 30, 2018. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says the departure of Chrystia Freeland from the Liberal cabinet will help Canada strike better deals.

Trump commented on Freeland’s resignation from the role of deputy prime minister and finance minister on Dec. 16, saying in a Truth Social post the “Great State of Canada is stunned” after she resigned or “was fired” by “Governor Justin Trudeau.”