By Kyle Duggan and Dylan Robertson Chrystia Freeland is quitting Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet and taking on a new role as Canada’s special envoy for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Freeland announced her resignation as transport minister on Tuesday. She said she will remain in the House of Commons as an MP for her Toronto riding of University-Rosedale but will not seek re-election. She left Tuesday’s regular cabinet meeting smiling and talking with Carney as they walked past TV cameras. Neither stopped to answer questions from reporters stationed outside the room. Instead, the news came out through media leaks before the cabinet meeting, and social media posts about an hour afterward. “A great strength of democracy is that no one holds political office in perpetuity. After twelve fulfilling years in…
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