Chrystia Freeland’s elevation to the most influential job in the federal cabinet, short of Finance and the prime ministership itself, raises interesting questions about Canada’s future relationships with the United States, Russia and China.
Freeland is a Harvard grad and Rhodes Scholar who speaks Russian, Ukrainian, French and Italian and has lived and worked in Moscow, New York and London. That and her performance as trade minister — specifically her successful landing of the European free trade deal last fall, after having abandoned talks at the eleventh hour — made her an obvious candidate for promotion to foreign affairs in a …read more
Source: National Newswatch
