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Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that President Donald Trump’s tariff plans for Canada were the “dumbest” in history. Freeland said, “There have been more flip-flops than we can keep track of here in Canada. But what we do know is, you know, the prime minister is right the Wall Street Journal is right, these are the dumbest tariffs in history. This is utterly self-mutilating. It’s really a perverse approach, Anderson, because America is hurting itself, moving in this direction.” She continued, “The president is killing the U.S. stock market. Your stock...

Chrystia Freeland, a leading candidate to replace Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the helm of the governing Labour Party, has suggested that Britain and France could be called on to provide a nuclear deterrent against the United States. The leadership race in Canada soared to new levels of hysteria this week as former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland floated the idea that Ottawa should look to forge closer ties with the United Kingdom and France as they possess nuclear weapons that could be used to protect Canada from the supposed threat of invasion from America. “I would be working...

A politician vying to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s next leader has suggested forming a closer alliance with Britain and France as the NATO nations possess nuclear weapons, which could help safeguard the Canadians against potential threats posed by President Donald Trump. […] Chrystia Freeland, former deputy prime minister under Trudeau, warned that Trump poses a direct “threat” to Canada’s sovereignty by saying that the country could potentially become the 51st U.S. state. Trump has said that Canada is “not viable as a country” without U.S. trade. Freeland proposed forming stronger defense ties with France and Britain, as their nuclear...

Was Chrystia Freeland's grandfather a nazi? Chrystia Freeland's maternal grandfather, Michael Chomiak (also spelled Mykhailo Khomiak), was a Ukrainian journalist who worked as the chief editor of Krakivski Visti, a Ukrainian-language newspaper published in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. The newspaper was established in 1940 by the German authorities, operated under Nazi supervision, and was printed on presses confiscated from a Jewish publisher who was later killed in a concentration camp. Historical records, including those from the Holocaust museums in Los Angeles and Washington, indicate that Krakivski Visti published antisemitic content and Nazi propaganda, including support for the formation...

This includes 100% tariffs on all Teslas, a direct attack on Elon Musk, and a full ban on Wisconsin dairy products to stick it to Trump. “I am calling on all the countries that are affected by this tariff to join us. And our retaliation will target specific Trump constituencies. Another group that we’re going to go after is Wisconsin dairy farmers. We know how important they are for the President, and we’re not going to let them sell their products in Canada anymore,” Freeland said. This is the same woman who froze Canadian truckers’ bank accounts for protesting vaccine...

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland said Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” that Canadians were “furious” because President Donald Trump had challenged their sovereignty. Zakaria said, “You’ve talked about, uh, you know, 100% tariffs on some things. You talked about a boycott of American goods, which would not be a formal legal thing, but you’re just urging Canadians to stop buying American goods when they go to grocery stores. Is it also are you also thinking in your proposals of doing something on oil? You know, we import a lot of oil from Canada.”

Former Canadian finance minister – and deputy Prime Minister – Chrystia Freeland announced yesterday (17) that she will join the contest to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the Canadian ruling Liberal Party. Before we share some of the Reuters’ reports about their former senior editor Freeland, let’s bring back a dimension of her that MSM will do their utmost to cover up: the Nazi connection. Chrystia Freeland’s family connections to Ukrainian Nazis revolve around her maternal grandfather, ‘Michael’ Mykhailo Chomiak. Chomiak was an editor of a Ukrainian-language Nazi propaganda newspaper called Krakivski Visti, published in Nazi-occupied Poland...

Freeland resigned. Justa Hairdeau won't. So Parliament is going to vote No Confidence.

In an unexpected move, Chrystia Freeland resigned her cabinet position as finance minister on Monday morning, even as she was set to deliver the Liberal government’s fall economic update later in the day. Here’s what to know. (snip)Why did she resign?In her resignation letter, Freeland said the prime minister had told her Friday that he was planning to move her out of the finance portfolio, but offered her a different, unspecified cabinet position.Instead, she decided “the only honest and viable path for me is to resign from cabinet,” adding: “To be effective, a Minister must speak on behalf of the...

The finance minister is an unlikely champion of the Chicago Way, but she has just pulled off a coup that may end up toppling this government.. Who saw Chrystia Freeland pulling a gun, after Justin Trudeau unsheathed a knife? ... The finance minister is an unlikely champion of the Chicago Way, but she has just pulled off a coup that may end up toppling this government. Just hours before she was due to give her fall economic statement, she quit. Despite the widespread media speculation about a falling out between Freeland and Trudeau, it’s a good bet that no one...

Justin Trudeau chooses to side with the ICC and Hamas against Israel.. He does so standing next to Chrystia Freeland, whose grandfather was a leading Nazi in his day. History echoes. ... Freeland's Chomiak grandfather was a prolific antisemitic propagandist during the war.

Following a federal court ruling against the Canadian government for using the Emergencies Act during the trucker convoy, several plaintiffs plan to sue.. Several Freedom Convoy protesters, buoyed by a recent victory in Canadian federal court, said they’re preparing to sue the federal government, banks, and the police that brought the 2022 protest to a heated end. “I think it’s the second phase to what took place with the federal court case,” military veteran and plaintiff Eddie Cornell said. “We’ve got a big hill to climb, but it’s something that’s necessary. It has to be done.” On Jan. 23, Federal...

Two years ago, I wrote a column denouncing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of a counter-terrorism law to shut down the Freedom Convoy trucker protests as an authoritarian attack on free speech. Now, a Canadian court has agreed and ruled that the use of the Emergencies Act was unlawful and “unreasonable.” Despite Trudeau’s attacks on civil liberties, he remains a favorite of the media as an iconic figure on the left. Various civil liberties groups have opposed the iron-handed measures of Trudeau, including The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Constitution Foundation. The characterization of political critics as...

The RCMP protect the prime minister around the clock, but cabinet ministers are not generally given a protective detail unless they’re facing a specific threat. In Ottawa, ministers have access to a car and driver, but that is not considered to be a substitute for a security detail. Mendicino said he was concerned about the level of safety for all politicians and said everything was on the table. “We will continue to explore all options. We work very closely with the RCMP with the sergeant at arms with all of the local and regional police services who offer protection.” On...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday condemned an abusive verbal attack on his deputy prime minister and finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, which he described as an "extremely disturbing harassment" that was not an isolated incident. In the video of the incident shared on Twitter late on Friday, Freeland was approaching the elevator of a city hall building in Grande Prairie, Alberta, when one man shouted at her.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in lockstep with Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset agenda now that the Liberal government has unveiled its ambitious federal “Digital Identity Program.” ... details about how the federal government is building a digital identity infrastructure that will affect all Canadians. “The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for government services to be accessible and flexible in the digital age. The next step in making services more convenient to access is a federal Digital Identity Program, integrated with pre-existing provincial platforms,” the report reads. “Digital identity is the electronic equivalent of a recognized proof-of-identity document (for example, a...

Chrystia Freeland called climate action 'an insurance policy against higher energy prices.'. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s World Economic Forum-linked finance minister told Canadians on Tuesday that record-high fuel prices are a “reminder of why climate action is so important and why as a country we need to work even harder and move even faster towards a green economy.” “It’s an insurance policy against higher energy prices,” Liberal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said at a press conference. Freeland’s statements come after the Liberal government increased the cost of fuel overnight by imposing a “carbon tax” on Canadians on April 1. On...

Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland ... As a member of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum’s board of directors ... Freeland’s maternal grandfather Mykhailo Khomiak was the Nazi regime’s senior editor of the Ukrainian antisemitic daily newspaper Krakivs’ki visti (News of Krakow). ... Her response to the famous trucker convoy in Ottawa, legally and peacefully protesting the government’s punitive COVID-19 mandates, was nothing if not totalitarian in nature. Freeland stated that banks would be able to freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests without any need for a court order. The same would apply to...

Steve Bannon was particularly hard on Christia Freeland who wrote a moving piece supporting democracy and Ukraine, two weeks after locking up Canadia truckers and freedom protesters.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named his close ally and deputy Chrystia Freeland as finance minister. She replaces Bill Morneau who resigned amid friction with Trudeau over government spending amid pandemic. Freeland, 52, a former journalist and foreign minister, on Tuesday became Canada’s first female finance minister, a day after Bill Morneau resigned. She also keeps her job as deputy prime minister. “It’s about time that we broke that glass ceiling,’’ Freeland said. […] Freeland will now be tasked with reviving an economy crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the budget deficit this fiscal year forecast to hit C$343.2...