1/ (THREAD) Canada’s deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, is overseeing the federal coronavirus response. With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in quarantine, she’s poised to take on even more responsibility. Her writing for The Atlantic provides insight into her worldview:
2/ In 2011, she wrote about how the world’s growing wealth gap and “light-speed, globally connected economy” had engendered the rise of a “transglobal community” of wealthy elites who shared little common ground with their poorer countrymen: theatln.tc/zUhwvS94
3/ In 2013, she turned her attention to the global business leaders who feared that the market economy had become dysfunctional and were working to build a more sustainable capitalist system: theatln.tc/qqStcQ0o
4/ In 2015, she argued that the spread of “market democracy” after the fall of the Berlin Wall had failed to produce a stable world order. To succeed in an uneasy global economy, she wrote, businesses would have to embrace the greater good: theatln.tc/lUW0yUgV
5/5 Read more of Freeland’s writing for The Atlantic here: theatln.tc/xXAuWVCq
