Is Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland Trudeau's Heir Apparent

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland speak after she's sworn in as deputy prime minister and minister of intergovernmental affairs at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. (Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Andrew Mitrovica, Al Jazeera: Chrystia Freeland: Trudeau's heir apparent

Is Freeland's CV 'beyond reproach' as the Canadian media has claimed?

So he has gone into hiding to tend to his electoral wounds. Justin Trudeau kept his job. But for how long? He knows Liberals are allergic to minority governments he now leads. He will likely get one more chance to win a majority. If Trudeau doesn't, he may have to take a walk in the snow and quit like his father once famously did or risk the humiliation of being pushed out.

When Trudeau inevitably departs - voluntarily or involuntary - his successor will already have been anointed, if Canada's corporate media could cast the deciding vote. The gooey love affair between Chrystia Freeland and her many fawning suitors in the fourth estate has been on cringe-worthy display since the journalist turned politician.

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WNU Editor: The media in Canada are certainly excited over that prospect. But among my Liberal friends less so. They do not see her as progressive enough. As to what is my take. She is associated with a political party that has disappointed many Canadians, and in some provinces was totally wiped out in the last election. I do not see her recovering any of that lost vote, and in the province where I live (Quebec), I can easily see the Liberal Party losing more votes and seats since the Liberal Party would no longer have a French Canadian leading the party. In French Quebec this is an important factor on how they vote.