Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is the first woman to take on the role of Canada's finance minister, less than 24 hours after Bill Morneau resigned.

David Akin looks at the reaction to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's latest cabinet shuffle, and how Trudeau is proroguing parliament, in part, to “force” a confidence vote on their return to gain support from the other parties for their plan to restart the economy, despite not wanting an election.

Mercedes Stephenson also looks at what this means for the ethics investigations into Trudeau and former Finance Minister Bill Morneau over the WE Charity affair, and what could be behind Morneau's resignation.

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