COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JOHN HELMER IN RUSSIA
INSIDER
I was not at all happy about this appointment of Chrystia
Freeland as Foreign Minister by Justin Trudeau.
I don't even understand what he intended by it.
So far as I know he harbors no anti-Russian feelings.
But I think it clear this woman may well.
In general, folks who insist on speaking the old language of
their parents at home, as she does, are not the kind of minds I find at all
attractive.
I've known members of Canada's Ukrainian community in the
past, and they are not a progressive or open-minded bunch, being the sons and
daughters of people who left the Soviet Union ages ago.
She is not even a seasoned politician or a long-serving
Member of Parliament.
We had a very classy guy representing our country, M. Dion,
but Trudeau has moved him to the EU.
Was Trudeau thinking this kind of person would appeal to
Trump? If so, I don’t know why. Or was he just trying to give some of the more
conservative communities in Canada more front row representation?
Whatever, it is not an attractive or promising appointment
at all, even without Nazi skeletons in her family background.
Trudeau has now made several blunders or bad calls now, and
I am finding myself thinking, despite his superficial charm, he is not proving
an especially attractive or effective leader.
