On a warm Sunday evening last month, Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s International Trade Minister, held a barbecue in the backyard of her Toronto home for about 25 senior Ukrainian government officials.
They were in town for the Canada-Ukraine Business Forum, and Ms. Freeland could not attend the gala dinner. So she decided to invite them over to her place.
She got the hamburgers, her 15-year-old daughter, Natalka, did the roast potatoes and Stepan Kubiv, who is Ms. Freeland’s counterpart in Ukraine, made a very traditional Ukrainian polenta-style dish.
“I realized with hindsight … my department thought I was completely insane,” she said in a …read more
Source: National Newswatch
