在这本书中，曾任财政部长兼副总理的克丽斯蒂娅·弗莱兰详细讲述了自己与贾斯汀·特鲁多之间的政治关系：从最初面对面邀请她加入政府时的融洽氛围，到多年后特鲁多通过视频通话将她从财政部长职位上撤下时的冷淡疏离。
In , one-time finance minister and deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland digs into how her political relationship with Justin Trudeau went from a warm face-to-face invite into public service to a cold Zoom call where he booted her from the finance role years later.
虽然书中提到的“不可信赖的“男友”指的是唐纳德·特朗普领导下的美国，但读者们也完全可以理解为书名其实是以特鲁多为原型创作的。
While the book's "unreliable boyfriend" is the United States under U.S. President Donald Trump, readers could be forgiven for thinking the title is actually inspired by Trudeau.
弗莱兰热情地描述了两人如何在贸易事务、疫情应对以及全国性儿童保育计划的推行上通力合作。不过她也详细记述了特鲁多逐渐失去民众支持的过程，以及他喜欢羞辱内阁成员、对言论严加管控、总爱欺负比自己弱势之人的种种行为。
She enthuses about how the pair worked together on the trade file, their management of the pandemic and their rollout of national child care. Yet she also details Trudeau's slide into unpopularity, penchant for humiliating members of his cabinet, word-policing and tendency to pick on those weaker than him.
尽管两人的关系最终以不愉快收场，弗莱兰依然能够肯定特鲁多的优点。其中一点便是在2012年末多伦多的一场聚会上她所注意到的——那时身为自由党议员的特鲁多尚未成为总理。
While their relationship ended bitterly, she is still able to praise Trudeau for his strengths, one of which she noticed at a party in Toronto in late 2012, before Trudeau the Liberal MP became Trudeau the prime minister.
那场聚会是为了庆祝弗莱兰新书的发布。当时她的父亲把特鲁多拦下，急切地想与这位“自由党政坛的皇室成员”畅谈政治见解。“我当时尴尬得要命，”弗莱兰回忆道，她赶紧跑过去试图把特鲁多从父亲的“包围”中解救出来——结果却发现这位未来的总理其实乐在交谈之中。
At that party celebrating the launch of Freeland's book , her father cornered Trudeau to convey his thoughts on politics, eager to speak with "Liberal political royalty." "I was mortified," Freeland recalled as she rushed over to try and free Trudeau from her father's grip — only to learn that the future prime minister was enjoying the chat.
次年夏天，弗莱兰受邀参加一场早餐会，特鲁多以及前安大略省省长、现任联邦议员鲍勃·雷也都在场。
The following summer Freeland was invited to a breakfast that included Trudeau and former Ontario premier and current MP Bob Rae.
会上有人告知雷即将辞去多伦多选区的议员职务，并询问弗莱兰是否愿意参加即将举行的补选。
She was told Rae was stepping down from his Toronto seat and was asked if she'd consider running in an upcoming byelection.
“接下来的六周里，我一直在为是否接受贾斯汀的邀请而苦恼不已，”她在书中写道。
"I spent the next six weeks agonizing over Justin's offer," she wrote.
她担心让孩子们离开她和丈夫在纽约为他们营造的生活环境。而且当时自由党在民意支持率上仅排第三，她深知自己可能是在“投身于一项注定失败的事业”。最终，她写道，是“特鲁多对我父亲的体贴关怀”以及父亲的鼓励让她下定决心接受了这个邀请。
She worried about uprooting her children from the life she and her husband had built for them in New York. And with the Liberals in third place, she knew she may be "joining a lost cause." In the end she wrote that she was won over by "Trudeau's kindness to my dad" and her father's encouragement to accept the offer.
如何把握强硬应对的时机：特朗普就任总统后的首批举措之一便是签署行政命令，宣布美国退出《跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》（TPP）。到了2017年春季，特朗普又威胁要退出《北美自由贸易协定》（NAFTA）。
Knowing when to play hardball One of Trump's first moves as president was to sign an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. By the spring of 2017, Trump was also threatening to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
原本其余TPP成员国计划在11月于越南岘港举行的峰会上签署该协定。但时任加拿大外交部长弗里兰在文中写道，特鲁多希望争取到更有利的贸易条款。
The remaining TPP countries were set to sign the pact on the margins of a November summit in Da Nang, Vietnam. But Freeland, who was foreign affairs minister at the time, wrote that Trudeau wanted a better deal.
在与时任国际贸易部长弗朗索瓦-菲利普·尚帕尼及其他官员的通话中，特鲁多因尚帕尼未能在知识产权等议题上为加拿大争取到让步而对其大加斥责。
In a call with then international trade minister François-Philippe Champagne, Freeland and others, Trudeau humiliated Champagne for not securing concessions on intellectual property and other issues.
特鲁多缺席会议后，TPP前景堪忧。加拿大称各成员国已就贸易协定的“核心内容”达成一致。“回想起那段往事我至今仍觉得难为情——目睹同僚遭羞辱的场面，让我想起小时候去皮斯里弗镇找朋友玩时，看到他们挨打而我却无能为力的情景。”由于加拿大拒绝签署协定，弗里兰写道特鲁多惹恼了日本首相安倍晋三与澳大利亚总理马尔科姆·特恩布尔。即便遭到多方反对，弗里兰仍对特鲁多的强硬态度表示钦佩。
TPP faces uncertain future after Trudeau skips meeting Partners reach agreement on 'core elements' of trade deal, Canada says "I still cringe as I remember it — the embarrassment I felt at hearing a colleague humiliated reminded me of feeling bad for my childhood friends in Peace River when they got spanked while I was over to play." When Canada refused to sign the deal, Freeland wrote Trudeau angered both Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Despite that pushback, Freeland said she admired the defiance.
“特鲁多向世人证明：无论人们是喜欢他还是厌恶他，都不得不承认他是个有胆识的领袖。”她这样写道。
"Trudeau showed that, love him or loathe him, you could not deny that he was a leader with balls," she wrote.
弗里兰指出，鉴于即将展开的NAFTA谈判，必须让白宫明白：在贸易协定问题上，加拿大“随时准备采取强硬手段”。为自由贸易而战：到了2018年初，弗里兰坦言自己“忧心忡忡，生怕美国的提议会导致NAFTA彻底瓦解”，于是开始起草一份在协定失效后发表的演讲稿。
Freeland said with NAFTA talks coming up, it was important to let the White House know when it came to trade deals, Canada "was prepared to play hardball." The 'FAFO' fight for free trade By early 2018, Freeland wrote she had grown so "worried that American proposals could kill NAFTA" she'd begun writing a speech to deliver after its demise.
在华盛顿与美国官员进行的气氛紧张的会谈中，弗里兰坦言自己偶尔会“躲进女洗手间避难”——她说那里相对安全，因为美方谈判代表席上几乎从未有女性出席。
During particularly fraught meetings with U.S. officials in Washington, Freeland admitted she would occasionally "take refuge in the ladies' washroom" which was a safe place because, she said, there were almost never any women on the U.S. side of the table.
“有一次，在一个特别艰难的时刻，我跪在洗手池前冰冷的白色瓷砖上祈祷，”她写道。
"Once, at a particularly dire moment, I got down on my knees on the cold white tiles in front of the sinks and prayed," she wrote.
弗里兰表示，加拿大之所以能够挽救那笔交易，是因为当美国对加拿大征收钢铝关税时，加拿大对美国实施了反制关税，瞄准了关键的共和党选区。
Freeland said that Canada only managed to save that deal because it imposed retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. when it hit Canada with steel and aluminum tariffs, targeting key Republican districts.
她写道，这种“FAFO”方式以及特鲁多愿意采用它的态度，正是确保加拿大重新与邻国建立“互惠关系”的关键。弗里兰谈到她与美国同僚的关系演变时表示，重新谈判北美自由贸易协定（NAFTA）一直悬而未决。她说，新北美自由贸易协定——如今加拿大人称之为加美墨协定（CUSMA）——的细节基本上由她负责。
That "FAFO" approach, and Trudeau's willingness to employ it, she wrote, was what ensured Canada got back to a "reciprocal relationship with our neighbour." The evolution of Freeland's relationship with her U.S. counterpart Freeland says renegotiated NAFTA was always going to come down to the wire She said the details of the new NAFTA, an agreement Canadians now call the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), were largely left to her.
特鲁多“在自己公开露面的细节问题上投入极大……但在贸易问题上他并未深入细节，”她说。
Trudeau "got extremely involved in the fine print of his own public appearances … on trade he didn't dive into the details," she said.
尽管如此，她仍将挽救北美自由贸易协定描述为“特鲁多的最佳时刻……加拿大的花花公子王子成为真正民族领袖的时刻。”但弗里兰表示，特鲁多的政治资本早在另一场事件中就已经开始下滑，那就是他不幸的印度之行。
Still, she described the saving of NAFTA as "Trudeau's finest hour … the moment when Canada's playboy prince became a true national leader." But Freeland says Trudeau's political stock was already in decline on another front thanks to his ill-fated trip to India.
她形容特鲁多2018年2月对印度的国事访问是“一场政治灾难”，因为他过于夸张的服装成为焦点，而一名印度裔加拿大人贾斯帕尔·阿特瓦尔——因试图刺杀一名印度内阁部长而被控谋杀未遂——竟然出现在一个官方活动中。在内阁会议上哭泣在接下来的几年里，特鲁多取得了弗里兰在其著作中写道将被历史宽容评价的成就。
She described Trudeau's state visit to India in February 2018 as "a political disaster" where his over-the-top outfits became a distraction — and a Canadian of Indian descent, Jaspal Atwal, who was convicted of attempted murder for trying to assassinate an Indian cabinet minister, turned up at an official event. Crying at cabinet meetings Over the next few years, Trudeau landed achievements that Freeland wrote will be judged kindly by history.
她赞扬了他在与美国、欧盟以及太平洋沿岸国家达成贸易协定中的作用，推出全国性托儿计划以及应对疫情。但她指出，加拿大人开始因他的“自以为是的表演欲”而对其产生反感。
She praised him for his role in securing trade deals with the U.S., EU and the Pacific Rim countries, rolling out a national daycare program and managing the pandemic. But she noted that Canadians had started to sour on him for his "self-righteous exhibitionism."
“在内阁会议上哭泣是常态，”她写道。“随时都有纸巾盒备用，真的很伤心的同事有时会得到总理的一个拥抱。”弗里兰提到一个时刻，当时特鲁多对一位女同事进行了“长时间的严厉公开斥责”，因为她形容某事为“疯狂”。
"Crying was routine at cabinet meetings," she wrote. "There were always boxes of Kleenex on hand, and really sad colleagues would sometimes get a hug from the PM." Freeland noted one moment when Trudeau gave a female colleague a "long, harsh public scolding" for describing something as crazy.
特鲁多显然告诉那位同事，该词是一种“对心理健康问题者具有冒犯性的贬义形容词”。
Trudeau apparently told the colleague that the term was a "derogatory adjective" that was "insulting to people with mental health issues."
特鲁多希望他们使用的替代词是“香蕉”。弗里兰表示，她反对“语言纯洁测试”，因为有些人跟不上——但她更大的反对实际上是关于其他事情。
The term Trudeau wanted them to use instead was "bananas." Freeland said she objected to "linguistic purity tests" because some people struggle to keep up — but her larger objection was about something else.
“我最困扰的，是内阁会议上的哭泣和关于用词的讲课，有时似乎伴随着一种看起来像欺凌的行为，”她写道。
"I think what troubled me the most about the crying in cabinet and the lectures about word choice was that it sometimes went along with what seemed like bullying," she wrote.
虽然弗里兰表示她对试图像特朗普或弗拉基米尔·普京那样欺凌他人没有问题，但她不喜欢看到特鲁多“欺负较弱的人”。克雷蒂安的建议随着岁月流逝、特鲁多的支持率下降，弗里兰说她逐渐明白，特鲁多让陌生人感觉“自己是世界上最重要的人”的才能，在他同事身上却止步不前。
While Freeland said she has no problem with trying to bully people like Trump or Vladimir Putin, she didn't like it when she saw Trudeau "pushing weaker people around." Chrétien's advice As the years rolled on and Trudeau's popularity declined, Freeland said she came to understand that Trudeau's gift of making strangers feel like "they are the most important person in the world" stopped short of his peers.
“我们可能会一起出现在摄像机前，但即使是他童年的私人朋友，也没有与他有亲密的政治关系，”她写道。“我们中很少有人曾单独与他相处过。” 随着有关特鲁多将用前央行行长（现任总理）马克·卡尼取代弗里兰担任财政部长的传闻四起，她在2024年11月向前自由党总理让·克雷蒂安寻求建议。她说克雷蒂安告诉她，她的忠诚已经达到了逻辑上的极限。
"We might walk together for the cameras but none of us, even his personal friends from childhood, had intimate political relationships with him," she wrote. "Few of us ever spent time with him one-on-one." As rumours began to swirl that Trudeau was going to replace Freeland as finance minister with former central bank governor (and now prime minister) Mark Carney, she sought advice from former Liberal prime minister Jean Chrétien in November 2024. She said Chrétien told her that her loyalty had reached its logical limit.
弗里兰说克雷蒂安告诉她，只要她继续留在内阁，并公开宣称支持特鲁多，他就会继续担任总理，而自由党将在下一次选举中失利。
Freeland said Chrétien told her that as long as she remains in cabinet, and keeps publicly declaring she supports Trudeau, he would stay on as prime minister and the party would lose the next election.
克雷蒂安对她说：“保守党领袖皮埃尔·波利耶夫将成为总理，自由党将被摧毁。如果真的发生，那在一定程度上是你的错，因为你持续的支持正是让贾斯廷·特鲁多得以继续执政的原因。”
"Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will become prime minister and the Liberal Party will be devastated. And if that happens, it will be partly your fault, because your continued support is what is making it possible for Justin Trudeau to stay in office," she said Chrétien told her.
弗里兰原计划于12月16日发表政府的秋季经济声明。她写道，随着特朗普将在数周后第二次宣誓就任总统，是时候收紧财政，为可能出现的长期经济战争做好准备。
Freeland was due to deliver her government's fall economic statement on Dec. 16. She wrote that with Trump set to be sworn in as president for the second time just weeks later, it was time to tighten up finances and prepare for what could be a protracted economic war.
在该声明发布前几天，她说特鲁多“取消了她为准备工作而加入的超过120亿美元的支出削减”。
Days before that statement was to be delivered, she said that Trudeau "removed over $12 billion in spending cuts" that Freeland had included to help prepare.
她说：“我知道，在这一关键时刻，特鲁多只关注自己的政治生存。而且，在他的绝望中，他做的事越来越愚蠢。”
"I knew that, in this consequential moment, Trudeau was focused solely on his own political survival," she said.
她形容那天是她人生中第三糟糕的一天——在她母亲去世和父母离婚之后的最糟糕一天。星期五13日，也就是她原定发表经济声明的前三天，特鲁多安排了一次Zoom通话，她说他在通话中告诉她：“我不再希望你担任我的财政部长。”她将此描述为她人生中仅次于母亲去世和父母离婚的第三糟糕的一天。
"And, in his desperation, he was doing increasingly stupid things." The third-worst day of her life On Friday the 13th — three days before she was set to deliver that economic statement — Trudeau arranged a Zoom call where she says he told her: "I no longer want you to serve as my finance minister." She described it as the third-worst day of her life after the death of her mother and her parent's divorce.
弗里兰表示，她曾被告知将保留副总理头衔，并继续负责加拿大与美国的关系——但却没有相应的部门支持她。当弗里兰询问谁将接替她时，特鲁多告诉她，这个人将是卡尼。
Freeland says she was told she would retain the deputy prime minister title and would still be responsible for the Canada-U.S. relationship — but without a department to back her up. When Freeland asked who would replace her, Trudeau told her it would be Carney.
弗里兰写道，特鲁多仍然希望她负责发表经济声明，并给了她时间考虑。
Freeland wrote that Trudeau still wanted Freeland to deliver the economic statement and gave her time to think it over.
“与其被解雇，我选择了辞职，”她写道。“与特鲁多的Zoom通话让我意识到，我根本不可能信任总理——而且他已经决定不再信任我。”弗里兰的辞职使赤字新闻被暂时搁置 政府仍计划公布经济声明 克里斯蒂娅·弗里兰将于周五辞去议员职务 弗里兰称自己辞去内阁职务的行为“或许是加拿大政治史上最重大的辞职信”，并声称自己促成了前一位总理的下台，挫败了波利耶弗成为下一任总理的机会，并为卡尼的接任铺平了道路。
"Rather than be fired, I resigned," she wrote. "The Zoom call with Trudeau had taught me that I simply couldn't trust the PM — and that he had decided not to trust me." Freeland's resignation pushes deficit news to the side Government still planning to unveil economic statement Chrystia Freeland to step down as MP on Friday Describing her resignation from cabinet as "maybe the most significant resignation letter in Canadian political history," Freeland claimed credit for bringing down one prime minister, thwarting Poilievre's chance to become the next one and clearing the way for Carney to swoop in for the kill.
消息传出后，弗里兰写道，克雷蒂安曾致电她，祝贺她“做了正确的事”。
After the news hit, Freeland wrote that Chrétien called her and congratulated her for "doing the right thing."
尽管在随后的自由党领袖竞选中输给了卡尼，弗里兰仍表示，她认为自己“本可以赢得2025年的选举”，并“成为一位称职的总理”。不过，她同时表示，卡尼是一位“出色”的总理。
Despite losing the subsequent Liberal leadership race to Carney, Freeland said she thinks she "could have won the 2025 election" and "been an effective PM." Still, she said Carney is an "excellent" prime minister.
“我很自豪自己的决定帮助他获得了最高职位，尽管最终为此付出了相当沉重的政治代价，”她说。
"I am proud my decision helped him get the top job, even though I ended up paying a pretty steep political price," she said.