Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Canada has played its role well.
A moral leader, worthy representative of harsh and offensive sanctions against Vladimir Putin.
For once, we feel that in times of crisis, the federal government governs. Refreshing.
If this is the case, it is in particular because of Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Finance.
In fact, it is as if her whole life had predestined her for this crisis.
Of Ukrainian origin, she studied Russian literature at Harvard University. Journalist, she was a correspondent for the FinancialTimes in Moscow, a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She has written about communist Russia’s transition to capitalism, and the concentration of Russian wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, many criticized him for his hard line vis-à-vis Putin.
She knew what Putin aspired to, she who had already called him a dictator in 2014.
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That is why his speech last Monday was so right.
“Because of these men, there are times in history when the great struggle between freedom and tyranny comes down to a fight, in one place, that is fought for all mankind. »
Everything is there in this sentence, a thousand leagues from the vaporous sentences to which Justin Trudeau has accustomed us.
It looked like the head of state at the time was not Justin Trudeau, it was Chrystia Freeland.
It was she who naturally embodied authority. She pointing the direction.
The media Politico also noted that it is directly Freeland which is in contact with the Ukrainian government, and which would have organized the Western consensus to paralyze the Russian Central Bank, in front of initially reluctant Americans and Europeans.
End of reign
In Ottawa, it is no longer the gas of truckers that one can smell, but the end of a reign.
Justin Trudeau will soon walk in the snow, as Trudeau Sr. did before announcing his resignation.
Everything indicates that at this time, Canada will live its Freeland moment.
Reference-www.journaldemontreal.com