Freeland pilloried for unproven wartime misconduct of her grandfather

Years ago, another journalist who worked at Krakivski Visti told me his colleagues had no affinity for Nazi aims, but did use their positions with the newspaper to sustain the clandestine work of the Ukrainian resistance.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured in a Hill scrum. Lubomyr Luciuk writes that what is shocking about this recent effort, however, is how the Russians have deployed a ‘blood libel’ argument to undermine Ms. Freeland.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY LUBOMYR LUCIUK

March 13, 2017

KINGSTON, ONT.—I’ve heard it all before. It was fake news then and it’s still fake now. Allegations about supposed “Nazis in Canada”—the most recent regurgitation targeting our Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland—have been around for decades. Understandably, just after the wa...

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