The current Minister of Public Safety of Canada, Dominic LeBlanc, is scheduled to take the oath of office as Minister of Finance on December 16 in the afternoon local time, with Prime Minister Trudeau in attendance. Earlier that day, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland unexpectedly announced her resignation from the cabinet, while she was originally scheduled to deliver the fall economic statement in the House of Commons that afternoon, which led to an urgent need for Trudeau's cabinet to appoint a new Minister of Finance to deliver the fall economic statement. (CCTV)