Chrystia Freeland, the member of parliament for University—Rosedale and former minister of foreign affairs, is a political star. In the last year alone, she has been promoted to deputy prime minister, and in the wake of the WE Charity scandal, to finance minister. There’s no indication her ascent will stop any time soon. Few would be surprised to see her eventually become the leader of the federal Liberal Party.
With that in mind, it’s important that Freeland, like all other politicians, is held to account for her troubling decisions and views. Thus far, however, Freeland has managed to avoid any serious scrutiny for something that has been career altering for politicians in other countries. That, of course, is her response to the fact that her grandfather, Michael Chomiak (Mykhailo Khomiak), was a Nazi collaborator. Rather than owning up to and condemning his past, she concocted conspiracy theories that shifted attention elsewhere and smeared those that brought the issue to light.
This is an older post dating from the time the Freeland Granpa story broke. Yes it has a leftist agenda but offers among other insights how left and right Ukraine organizations were treated by the government during the cold war era. Not to mention Freeland’s efforts to suppress the story.
I received a number of emails from an unknown source prior to the Freeland Granpa story going mainstream however they all linked to a very sketchy site that reduced whatever credibilty the information had. Pity I chose not to run with it. The article is worth a read.
