Inside Chrystia Freeland’s surprising resignation — and the fallout that has Justin Trudeau fighting for his political life

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is fighting once again for his political life. Behind closed doors. 

At an emergency meeting Monday evening — called after Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau’s now former top deputy and one-time “minister of everything” quit as finance minister — the prime minister came face to face with Freeland along with an angry and bewildered caucus before he planned to go explain the crisis to the Liberal party’s top donors.