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ChrystiaFreeland is at the centre of a political storm. The course she charts out of it could save her Liberal government — or make matters even worse

OTTAWA—It’s 2014, and Chrystia Freeland is laughing on the streets of London.

In classic Freeland fashion, she’s casually strolling with a smart and influential person whom she has known for years: Michael McFaul, a top Barack Obama-era foreign policy thinker, fresh off his stint as the American ambassador in Moscow. Aown a long block of the historic city, the subject turns to how Freeland recently transformed her life. Only seven months earlier, she was elected to Parliament in a downtown Toronto byelection, thus trading her vocation as a successful journalist for a new calling as a Canadian politician.

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