Bill Morneau has resigned as finance minister, and will also step down as the MP for Toronto Centre after having met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier today to discuss reported disagreements over COVID-19 spending plans and proposed environmental initiatives. “I met with the prime minister today to inform him that I did not plan to run again in the next federal election,” Morneau told reporters Monday evening. “It has never been my plan to run for more than two federal election cycles.”

A popular refrain on social media during the first term of the Trudeau government was that the PM was little more than a puppet for Gerald Butts, who was then principal secretary to the PM. The taunts sometimes had different angles to them – some of them even roping George Soros into the mix, who was supposedly controlling Butts while Butts controlled Trudeau – but they were all variations on the same theme: That Trudeau wasn’t really in charge or making the decisions.

On Monday, the United States Department of Commerce dealt yet another blow to Huawei. Since May, the U.S. government has been restricting Huawei’s ability to purchase and use semiconductors in their products if they’re of U.S. origin.