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Canada's deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. With the previous positions of Minister of International Trade, Foreign Affairs and Intergovernmental Affairs she has earned the title of Minister of Everything. She was instrumental in negotiating the NAFA agreement with the U.S. and Mexico, and CETA with the Europeans.
With degrees from both Harvard and Oxford in Russian and Slavic history, fluent in Russian and Ukrainian (and Italian and French) she has provided Canada with keen insight on the current conflict. As a young activist documenting the abuses of the Soviet Union towards the Ukrainian people she was so diligent in her endeavors to uncover such that after being banned from re-entering the USSR she was used as a case study by the KGB as "how much damage a single determined individual could inflict on the Soviet Union". She has been described by her adversaries as "erudite, sociable, persistent, and inventive in achieving her goals".
Her observations of emerging Western politics are telling. In a speech to an American audience after winning the Diplomat of the Year award at the Foreign Policy forum she said, "Wealthy Western nations are seeing homegrown anti-democratic movements ... neo-Nazis, white supremacists, incels, nativists, or radical anti-globalists” while “authoritarian regimes are actively seeking to undermine us with sophisticated, well-financed propaganda and espionage operations.”
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With degrees from both Harvard and Oxford in Russian and Slavic history, fluent in Russian and Ukrainian (and Italian and French) she has provided Canada with keen insight on the current conflict. As a young activist documenting the abuses of the Soviet Union towards the Ukrainian people she was so diligent in her endeavors to uncover such that after being banned from re-entering the USSR she was used as a case study by the KGB as "how much damage a single determined individual could inflict on the Soviet Union". She has been described by her adversaries as "erudite, sociable, persistent, and inventive in achieving her goals".
Her observations of emerging Western politics are telling. In a speech to an American audience after winning the Diplomat of the Year award at the Foreign Policy forum she said, "Wealthy Western nations are seeing homegrown anti-democratic movements ... neo-Nazis, white supremacists, incels, nativists, or radical anti-globalists” while “authoritarian regimes are actively seeking to undermine us with sophisticated, well-financed propaganda and espionage operations.”
Chrystia Freeland - Wikipedia
Opinion | Chrystia Freeland dares to look at a dark American future
When Canada’s minister of foreign affairs accepted a diplomacy award in the U.S. this week, she reminded her audience why facts, competence and honesty still matter, Heather Mallick writes.
