Chrystia Freeland’s Kyiv calling: Russian invasion of Ukraine personal file for deputy PM

Chrystia Freeland is 'very well-known and well-regarded in Ukraine,' says senior Liberal staffer Taras Zalusky, whose family in Ukraine watched the deputy prime minister's personal address just days after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has been given responsibility for some of the toughest files in the Trudeau government, but her role in Canada’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is arguably the most personal.The Hill Times photgraph by Andew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

March 31, 2022

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland invoked one of history's great orators during a press conference inside the Sir John A. Macdonald Building on Feb. 28, four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, her ancestral homeland. “Dr. Martin Luther King believed that the arc of the moral universe is lon...

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