I don’t know how she went from writing a book slightly critical on the power of Oligarchs to a few years later deciding to organize her government around serving their needs and growing their wealth but I was not impressed.

Freeland worked hard to block basic climate finance regs we were working on that would have cost government zero money but led to some minor new regulatory and paperwork burdens on polluters and massively profitable banks. She was a force against needed change.

I once thought maybe that was the nature of her Finance Minister role, as the sober “how do we pay for that” smalll c conservative voice, but other governments have had far more visionary and progressive finance leads who are less embedded in pleasing the corporate power structures.