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Christina Alexandra "Chrystia" Freeland (born August 2, 1968) is a Canadian writer, journalist, and politician who is serving as the tenth and current Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and thirteenth Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs since 2019.
She served as Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2019, and Minister of International Trade from 2015 to 2017. She worked in a variety of editorial positions at the Financial Times, The Globe and Mail and Thomson Reuters (where she was the managing director and editor for consumer news), before announcing her intention to run for the Liberal Party nomination in the by-election to replace Bob Rae as the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre.
After winning the Liberal nomination on September 15, 2013, she was elected to parliament in the November 25, 2013 by-election.
Appointed to the Cabinet of Canada as Minister of International Trade on November 4, 2015, Freeland was named that month as one of Toronto's 50 most influential by Toronto Life magazine.
On January 10, 2017, Freeland was appointed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, succeeding Stéphane Dion.
She served through the end of the First Trudeau Ministry and was replaced by Francois-Philippe Champagne following the 2019 Canadian Federal Election. Freeland is the author of Sale of the Century, a 2000 book about Russia's journey from communism to capitalism and Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else in 2012.
Plutocrats was the winner of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize for non-fiction reporting on foreign affairs.
It also won the 2013 National Business Book Award for the most outstanding Canadian business-related book.
Early life, education and student activism (1968–1993)
Freeland was born in Peace River, Alberta, on August 2, 1968. Her father, Donald Freeland, was a farmer and lawyer and a member of the Liberal Party, and her Ukrainian mother, Halyna Chomiak (1946–2007), was also a lawyer, and ran for the New Democratic Party (NDP) in Edmonton Strathcona in the 1988 federal election. Her paternal grandmother was a Scottish war bride. Freeland's parents divorced when she was nine years old, though she continued to live with both of them.
Freeland was an activist from a young age, organizing a strike in fifth grade to protest her school's exclusive enrichment classes. She attended Old Scona Academic High School in Edmonton, Alberta for two years before attending the United World College of the Adriatic, in Italy, on a merit scholarship from the Alberta government for a project that sought to promote international peace and understanding.
She studied Russian history and literature at Harvard University. During 1988–89, she was an exchange student at the University of Kyiv in Ukraine, where she studied Ukrainian, although she was already fluent in the language. While there, she worked with journalist Bill Keller of The New York Times to document the Bykivnia graves, an unmarked mass grave site where the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) disposed of tens of thousands of dissidents. The official Soviet story held that the graves were the result of Nazi atrocities. She translated the stories of locals who had witnessed covered trucks and "puddles of blood in the road" that predated the Nazi invasion, adding evidence that the site was actually the result of Stalinist repression.
While there she attracted the attention of the KGB, which tagged her with the code name "Frida", and Soviet newspapers, who attacked her as a foreigner meddling in their internal affairs over her contacts with Ukrainian activists. The KGB surveilled Freeland and tapped her phone calls, and documented the young Canadian activist delivering money, video and audio recording equipment, and a personal computer to contacts in Ukraine. She used a diplomat at the Canadian embassy in Moscow to send material abroad in a secret diplomatic pouch, worked with foreign journalists on stories about life in the Soviet Union, and organised marches and rallies to attract attention and support from western countries. On her return from a trip to London in March 1989, Freeland was denied re-entry to the USSR. By the time her activism within Ukraine came to an end, Freeland had become the subject of a high-level case study from the KGB on how much damage a single determined individual could inflict on the Soviet Union; a 2021 Globe and Mail article quoted the report by a former officer of the KGB, which had described Freeland as "a remarkable individual", "erudite, sociable, persistent, and inventive in achieving her goals".
She worked as an intern for United Press International in London in the summer of 1990. Afterwards, she completed a Master of Studies degree in Slavonic studies from the University of Oxford in 1993 having studied at St Antony's College as a Rhodes Scholar.
Family and personal life
Freeland is married to Graham Bowley, a British writer and reporter for The New York Times. The couple have three children.
She has lived in Toronto since the summer of 2013 when she returned from abroad to run for election. She speaks Ukrainian at home with her children. She also speaks English, Russian, Italian, and French. In 2014, John Geddes reported that Freeland and her sister co-owned an apartment overlooking Independence square in Kyiv.
Journalism career (1993–2013)
When living in Ukraine, Freeland began her career as a stringer for the Financial Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist. Freeland began as a deputy editor and then as an editor for the Financial Times in London and UK news, as well as weekend editions, FT.com, and UK news. Freeland has also served as the Moscow bureau chief and Eastern Europe reporter for the Financial Times.
Freeland served as the deputy editor of The Globe and Mail from 1999 to 2001. She spent time at Thomson Reuters as both the managing director and editor of consumer news. She was also a Globe and Mail columnist. She was previously the editor of Thomson Reuters Digital, a position she had held since April 2011. She was the senior editor at Reuters news prior to that, and before that she was the president-at-large of Reuters news since March 1, 2010. She had previously been the deputy managing editor at the Financial Times, headquartered in New York City.
Freeland is the author of This Is a Book: Russia's Wild Ride From Communism to Capitalism (2000) and Plutocrats (2011).
The century's sales in Russia is due to privatization. It is based on interviews with Freeland and top Russian businessmen who lived in Russia from 1994 to 1998. The Financial Times' Moscow bureau chief was based on interviews conducted in 1994. The book chronicles the struggles that "new reformers" supporting capitalism, such as Anatoly Chubais and Yegor Gaidar, had in wresting power of Russian industry out of the hands of the communist "red barons" in wresting control of Russian industry. The compromises, such as the loan scheme, allowed businessmen like Mikhail Friedman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Vladimir Potanin to seize power and establish themselves as Russian oligarchs.
Plutocrats was a New York Times bestseller and the 2013 Lionel Gelber Award winner for non-fiction reporting on foreign affairs. It also received the 2013 National Business Book Award for the most outstanding Canadian business book.
Political career (2013–present)
Freeland left journalism in 2013 to enter politics on July 26, 2013. She applied for the Liberal Party in Toronto Centre to replace Bob Rae, who was stepping down to become interim Prime Minister Derek Abbott. She gained the nomination on September 15 and will face NDP candidate Linda McQuaig in the November 25 by-election. During the campaign, she was chastised for purchasing a $1.3 million house, but the price stayed consistent with Toronto's home prices. Freeland obtained a 75% majority and was voted in.
Freeland wrote an op-ed for The Globe and Mail in which she op-ed the government of Viktor Yanukovych amid the riots leading up to the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. As part of economic discipline policies against Yanukovych and others of his government, she favoured seizing personal assets and banning travel. Freeland visited Ukraine on behalf of the Liberal Party in March. During the annexation of Crimea by Russia, he said. Mustafa Dzhemilev, the chief of the Crimean Tatars; Vitaly Klitchko, the head of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform; and Ukrainian MP Petro Poroshenko, who was later elected president of Ukraine in May 2014.
Freeland was one of thirteen Canadians barred from travelling to Russia as a result of Russian President Vladimir Putin's retaliatory sanctions imposed in March 2014. "Love Russ lang/culture, loved my yrs in Moscow, but it's an honor to be on Putin's sanctions list, especially in the company of Cotler & Grod."
Much of Freeland's base was moved from Toronto Centre to University-Rosedale, where she ran in the 2015 federal election. Jennifer Hollett, a NDP candidate, won 55% of the election.
In his first Cabinet, newly-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named Freeland as Minister of foreign trade on November 4, 2015. Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's legacy project included her involvement in talks leading up to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The trade agreement was the largest since NAFTA, and it was signed on October 30, 2016.
Freeland was named minister of foreign affairs in a Cabinet shuffle on January 10, 2017, replacing Stéphane Dion as the head of Trudeau's foreign policy. Freeland announced that Canada's military service mission in Ukraine would be postponed until March 2019, retaining the 200 troops that had been previously ordered by the Harper administration.
Saudi Arabian security forces used Canadian-built Terradyne military vehicles against civilians in Al-Awamiyah, Shia's populated city. Terradyne's export licenses were temporarily suspended until reinstating them, but a Canadian inquiry found that there were no conclusive evidence that Canadian-built vehicles were used in human rights abuses. Human rights organizations such as Project Ploughshares were chastised for failing to consider the risks of human rights abuses in their findings. Bill C-47, which enabled Canada to sign the Arms Trade Treaty in 2019, was sponsored by Freeland.
The persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has been condemned by Freeland. "The violence against the Rohingya "looks a lot like ethnic cleansing, and that is not acceptable," she said.
On August 2, 2018, Freeland released a statement expressing Canada's displeasure with the detention of Samar Badawi, a human rights activist and sister of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi. She argued for their freedom. Saudi Arabia has dismissed Canada's ambassador after Canada's outrage, and has suspended trade with Canada. Freeland requested assistance from allies, including Germany, Sweden, the UAE, and the United Kingdom.
Freeland raised the issue of Xinjiang re-education camps and human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim minority in a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in September.
Rahaf Mohammed, an 18-year-old Saudi teenager who was fleeing her violent family in Kuwait on January 19, was granted asylum by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Ottawa; Freeland welcomed Mohammed personally at Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who had "seized power through fraudulent and anti-democratic polls," Freeland condemned.
In Fortune Magazine's annual list, she ranked 37th among the world's top executives on April 18, 2019.
Freeland expressed support for the Hong Kong protests of 2019. Freeland condemned unilateral Turkish intervention in Syria's Kurdish areas in October 2019.
She was named deputy prime minister and minister of intergovernmental affairs following the 2019 federal election. Freeland was charged with several key Trudeau's domestic policy, including: expanding Medicare, implementing the Canada's national climate strategy, implementing firearms legislation, creating a pan-Canadian childcare scheme, encouraging interprovincial free trade, and reconciling with Indigenous peoples. Her primary task as minister of intergovernmental affairs was to resolve escalating tensions between the federal government and the western provinces, particularly with the rise of Alberta separatism.
She continued to be in charge of Canadian-American relations, as well as the ratification of the newly signed free-trade agreement with the United States and Mexico (CUSMA). She was also in charge of foreign affairs, including the minister of foreign affairs. The CUSMA was ratified in March 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Freeland was appointed Minister of Finance in August.
Following the 2019 election as deputy prime minister, Freeland took over the intergovernmental affairs portfolio following the 2019 election. She was also responsible for handling regional issues such as western alienation, particularly in Alberta and Saskatchewan, where the Liberals had failed to secure a single seat, as well as the Bloc Québécois' revival.
She was elected as the chair of the Cabinet Committee on the federal response to COVID-19 in March 2020. During the pandemic, Freeland developed a close working relationship with Ontario's premier, Doug Ford, a Liberal, despite the Liberals having used the Ford government's track record to campaign against the federal Conservatives in the fall's election campaign.
Trudeau revealed a cabinet shuffle on August 17, 2020, after Bill Morneau's resignation as a result of the WE Charity affair, with Freeland being named as minister of finance and Dominic LeBlanc, president of the Privy Council, replacing her as minister of intergovernmental affairs. It was the first time a woman had been given the role. On April 19, 2021, she introduced her first federal budget to the House of Commons. It was announced that a national childcare service would be established in Canada. The federal government estimated that it would fund half of the childcare program, with the provinces responsible for the remaining half.
Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to bring an end to blockades and the occupation from the convoy protest in Ottawa, on February 14, 2022, but police confirmed the blockade the day before, but the extraordinary powers granted by the Emergencies Act were not required at the borders. Freeland, the Minister of Finance, worked with RCMP and financial institutions to prohibit financial services to participants. Although banks were granted privileges against civil suits from customers, Freeland maintained that Charter rights remained in force during a press conference. She testified before a special parliamentary commission in June to answer questions about the decision. She described her presence as "adversarial," and several committee members said she was evasive and did not provide new details. "I would like to take the personal responsibility for that decision, it was my opinion that it was the correct decision" despite the fact that she did not specify which cabinet member made the suggestion to invoke the Act.
Freeland was at the forefront of Canada's reaction to Russia's takeover of Ukraine in late February 2022. "Now is the time to be strong," she said in Ukrainian at the start of the invasion. She was the first to call for restrictions on the Central Russian Bank, which were eventually introduced, and she spoke almost daily with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.