Too bad for Canada, we are loosing a great asset. She will do good things for Ukraine, she is incredibly talented and smart, and Putin fears her.
There was nothing left for her here. She will never be able to detach herself from Trudeau’s legacy. She tried at the end but it was obviously too late.
Name one good thing she did with Trudeau.
A Canadian MP, who theoretically swore some sort of oath of office to serve the Canadian people, bails mid-term to serve a foreign power. CSIS had a report a little while ago about a bunch of Federal MPs who’s loyalties were with foreign interests, not with representing Canada and the Canadian people. I wonder if she was one of the ones on their list.
A former journalist who is of Ukrainian heritage, Freeland has long been a vocal supporter of Kyiv in its war with Russia.
When you’re elected to represent your new home, you shouldn’t be representing your old countries interests. Doesn’t matter if she’s of Ukrainian ancestry. Just take that line, and swap it to China – we’ve a lot of elected reps who are of Chinese ancestry. “Clearly” people would take it as unacceptable if it came out that they were actually working for the interests of China, and/or if they reverted back to being members of the CCP mid-way through their term serving as Canadian representatives.
You are pointing out a legitimate double standard. The only difference is that Ukraine and Canada are allies.
Thankfully there’s nothing in her resume that seems to point to her putting Ukraine’s interests over Canada’s.
Yes, allies, sure. We’re tepid trading partners, as of 2017, a time when Ms Freeland had authority in Canada’s government - and which, given her current decision, it would be reasonable to question whether that trade arrangement was made because it was in Canada’s best interests, or was it more out of loyalty to Ukraine, with too many concessions made on the Canadian side?
We’re not official military allies, as they’re not in NATO. Preventing that alliance from being ‘formalized’ is/was a big part of russia’s thin justification for their aggression.
We’re both, in theory, democratic nations. Though in Ukraine’s case, that’s a very recent development, given that previous leaders were largely considered russian puppets – another theorized reason for russia’s aggression being that they lost their puppet. We may show solidarity with their plight against a russian aggressor, but I don’t think that inherently makes us allies.
Ukraine is about as much an ally of Canada as any other neutral third party country on the other side of the world.
Ukraine’s security IS in Canada (and the world’s) interest
