Chrystia Freeland
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The Honourable Chrystia Freeland PC MP |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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Assumed office January 10, 2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Stéphane Dion |
| Minister of International Trade | |
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In office November 4, 2015 – January 10, 2017 |
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| Prime Minister | Justin Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Ed Fast |
| Succeeded by | François-Philippe Champagne |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for University—Rosedale |
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Assumed office October 19, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Toronto Centre |
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In office November 24, 2013 – October 19, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Rae |
| Succeeded by | Bill Morneau |
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Christina Alexandra Freeland February 8, 1968 Peace River, Alberta, Canada |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Graham Bowley |
| Children | 3 |
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Harvard University (BA) St Antony's College, Oxford (MSt) |
Christina Alexandra "Chrystia" FreelandPC MP (born February 8, 1968) is a Canadian writer, journalist, and politician. She was appointed Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs in January 2017, succeeding Stéphane Dion. She worked in a variety of editorial positions at the Financial Times, The Globe and Mail and Thomson Reuters (where she was the managing director and editor for consumer news), before announcing her intention to run for the Liberal Party nomination in the by-election to replace Bob Rae as the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre. After winning the Liberal nomination on September 15, 2013, she was elected to parliament in the November 25, 2013 by-election. Appointed to the Cabinet of Canada as Minister of International Trade on November 4, 2015, Freeland was named that month as one of Toronto's 50 most influential by Toronto Life magazine. On January 10, 2017, Freeland was appointed the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Freeland is the author of Sale of the Century, a 2000 book about Russia's journey from communism to capitalism and Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else in 2012.Plutocrats was a New York Times bestseller, and the winner of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize for non-fiction reporting on foreign affairs. It also won the 2013 National Business Book Award for the most outstanding Canadian business-related book.
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