Freeland also detailed Trudeau’s unpopularity, habit of humiliating cabinet members, word-policing, and tendency to pick on those weaker than him. While their relationship ended bitterly, she still praised Trudeau for his strengths and kindness to her father. By early 2018, she wrote that she had grown “worried that American proposals could kill NAFTA.” Freeland said that Canada only managed to save that deal because it imposed retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.  targeting Republican districts, after Trump hit Canada with illegal steel and aluminum tariffs.