An employee’s witty resignation citing inability to afford a smartphone went viral.

Only hours before the release of the federal government’s fall economic statement, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland shocked Ottawa with the announcement of her resignation from cabinet. By Canadian standards, Freeland’s resignation letter is nothing short of scathing, deriding — in an unambiguous reference to the GST tax holiday — what it calls the “costly political gimmicks” that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government...