I know she’s not exactly progressive like AOC is, but I’m still baffled as to why the Liberals aren’t running Crystia Freeland.
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 Embassy of Canada in Moscow to send material abroad in a secret diplomatic pouch, worked with foreign journalists on stories about life in the Soviet Union, and organized 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 Soviet Union. 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.”
Nenshi for the NDP would be excellent, but I doubt Alberta will let him go.
EDIT: And ladies, I am so, so sorry about the gender gap there. Jesus Christ.
I said this above, but I’ll repeat it here: Freeland has spent the last near-decade getting Hillary’ed by the right-wing. She’s basically electoral poison at this point.
If they ran her, she’d join the Kim Campbell Glass Cliff Club.
I hope not! He’s way too old to get voted out and have to figure out how to get a job and take care of himself like an adult. You can’t just throw a grifter off the public teat like that! The poor little landlord might starve!
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I can’t wait for Pierre Poilievre to lose.
Imagine him losing to an AOC type. 💦
I know she’s not exactly progressive like AOC is, but I’m still baffled as to why the Liberals aren’t running Crystia Freeland.
Nenshi for the NDP would be excellent, but I doubt Alberta will let him go.
EDIT: And ladies, I am so, so sorry about the gender gap there. Jesus Christ.
I said this above, but I’ll repeat it here: Freeland has spent the last near-decade getting Hillary’ed by the right-wing. She’s basically electoral poison at this point.
If they ran her, she’d join the Kim Campbell Glass Cliff Club.
I’m not seeing it. And they were never going to vote for her anyway, how is that a loss?
I hope not! He’s way too old to get voted out and have to figure out how to get a job and take care of himself like an adult. You can’t just throw a grifter off the public teat like that! The poor little landlord might starve!