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By Kady O'Malley. Published on May 2, 2021 4:00pm
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured working in Ottawa in February, could be a facing a House call to fire his longtime chief of staff, Katie Telford. (PMO handout/Twitter)
Having secured the necessary — albeit grudging — approval of the House for the policy outlined in her inaugural budget speech,
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland now faces a second, possibly even higher-stakes cross-aisle challenge: convincing at least one opposition party to back her bid to implement some of the measures laid out in last month’s presentation, courtesy of the 366-page omnibus bill dropped onto the Commons docket on Friday.