Good morning! Kamala Harris certifies Donald Trump's election victory, JetBlue faces a major fine, and Canada's Chrystia Freeland kicked off the chain of events that led to Justin Trudeau's resignation. Have a lovely Tuesday.
- Internal politics. Before Justin Trudeau's announcement yesterday that he will resign as prime minister of Canada, there was a sign this was coming. It was on Dec. 16, when Chrystia Freeland announced her resignation as Canada's finance minister and deputy prime minister.
Long one of Trudeau's most trusted allies, Freeland's exit indicated just how far the prime minister had fallen from the heights of his popularity and political success. Her resignation letter, too, was not the bland stuff of your typical political reshuffle. "For the past number of weeks, you and I have found ourselves at odds about the best path forward for Canada,” she wrote in the letter to Trudeau, adding that she'd declined his request to serve in a position other than finance minister. She announced her resignation hours before she was scheduled to give Canada's first economic update after the U.S. election—a critical one amid Donald Trump's tariff threats, a matter on which she and Trudeau disagreed.
