Our Foreign Affairs Minister, Chrystia Freeland, will not be sitting down for borscht and blini in Russia any time soon. Maybe never.
She holds a rare ministerial distinction. She’s banned from that land. She was blacklisted three years ago, along with 12 other Canadians, in retaliation for sanctions imposed in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. No diplomatic overtures to end the ostracism are planned. Ottawa put the sanctions in place first, a Russian embassy official tells me, and they will have to be the first to lift them. No, it’s not up to our side, a Freeland spokesman says. “It’s …read more
Source: National Newswatch
