The Canadian Left doesn't much care for Crystia.
Via the very socialist Monthly Review, February 2, 2022:
The Petro-War of Chrystia Freeland: Canada’s military support for Ukraine
According to the Globe and Mail, the Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, is in charge of the campaign of military support for the Ukraine. As Canada’s Vice-Prime Minister, she presides over the committee made up of Canadian military Chief of Staff General Wayne Eyre, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly, Minister of Defence Anita Anad, and Clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charrette.
Once again, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been sidelined, the same as he was in the Meng Wanzhou affair, when Freeland rejected all proposed solutions, even one from Jean Chrétien, and displayed a lot of determination to poison Canada’s relations with China.
Warmonger Freeland is the spokesperson of the powerful Ukrainian lobby in the federal cabinet. Born in Alberta of Ukrainian parents, she was noted, even before entering federal politics, for her anti-Russian activism, to the point of being declared persona non grata in Russia.
Today, she wants Canada to respond positively to the Ukrainian government’s requests for military aid. Ottawa already renews, every six months, the mission of 200 military personnel charged with training Ukrainian soldiers. Now Kiev also wants arms and new economic sanctions against Russia.
Canada has given $700-million worth of military aid to Ukraine since 2014 and has just approved a package of “economic” aid worth another $120-million. Retired general Michael Day, who headed Canada’s Special Forces, has stated that this money could allow Ukraine to free up funds to buy arms. We should add that the frigate HMCS Montréal of the Royal Canadian Navy is now headed to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
Behind the Ukrainian Lobby and the Oil Lobby
Canada may have the biggest Ukrainian community outside of Ukraine, but the Ukrainian lobby does not explain everything. Behind the Ukrainian lobby is the oil lobby. The geostrategic stake in the confrontation between NATO and Russia, one about which little has been said, is the decoupling of Europe from Russia, an end to European dependence on Russian hydrocarbons. More than 40% of the natural gas and 20% of the gasoline consumed in Europe originates in Russia. The most dependent countries are Germany, Italy, and Turkey.....****
.... Return of GNL (Liquidized Natural Gas) Québec?In Quebec, the GNL Québec project for exporting Albertan natural gas through the Saguenay had Germany as its target market. A non-binding agreement had been signed at the time between the Belgian firm Fluxys for the construction of a terminal in Hamburg. The project was shelved because of the weak price of natural gas. But the price is rising strongly today, and the abandonment of Nord Stream II could very well unite the conditions for GNL’s renaissance.
One should also not forget that Canada signed an “energy partnership” with Germany for gas that will be transported by a new pipeline that crosses Quebec to a liquifying factory in Nova Scotia. The liquefied natural gas project Goldboro, worth $13-billion, is comparable to the GNL Saguenay project–the two could transport a similar quantity of natural gas....
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