Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should not have been in a position to tell Chrystia Freeland on Friday, three days before she was to deliver a fiscal update, that he no longer wanted her to be finance minister, but that he did want her to stay on in a different cabinet post — only to find out Monday morning that she was resigning from cabinet altogether.

A source told The Globe and Mail Trudeau offered Freeland the unenviable job of managing Canada-U.S. relations. That’s not just a demotion; it’s a nightmare.