It didn’t take long for Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, to decide that the tools provided by the Emergencies Act are so effective, the government will take steps to make them permanent.
Speaking to reporters in Ottawa last week, Freeland said:
In terms of the financial instruments which our government is using right now to act against these illegal blockades and illegal occupation. We reviewed very, very carefully the tools at the disposal of the federal government. And we used all the tools that we had prior to the invocation of the Emergencies Act, and we determined that we needed some additional tools.
Now some of those tools, we will be putting forward measures to put those tools permanently in place.
The authorities of FINTRAC [The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada], I believe do need to be expanded to cover crowdsourcing platforms and their payment providers. So that is something that we need to do and we will do and that needs to be in place permanently.
Some of these other tools, like the sharing of information between law enforcement and financial services and the requirement of financial services to be reviewing their accounts proactively and the immunity from prosecution that we have provided to them in doing this. These are extraordinary measures, measures that we absolutely believe are necessary in the current circumstances, that are having an impact. And let me also point out, having a peaceful impact.
And the other aspect of the financial tools that I would point to as being really effective and important is being clear that insurance on trucks that participate in these illegal occupations and blockades will be suspended.
So, we didn’t have those tools. I don’t believe that those tools should be part of the toolbox of a government in ordinary times. But they are necessary in these extraordinary circumstances, and they are having a very clear impact.
Ezra Levant, the founder of conservative Canadian media outlet Rebel News, reports that Freeland is also a director of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, an organization that’s never shied away from flexing its muscles.
This is especially alarming given the WEF’s latest initiative, known as “The Great Reset,” a radical plan which seeks to “reset” the global economy in the name of climate change. It is an assault on freedom and amounts the biggest power grab in modern history.
A group of global elites, including leaders of Big Tech companies such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, top government officials, Hollywood power players and the like, have determined that the world would be much better off if economic decisions were made by a central body – in other words, by them.
Based on the premise of never letting a crisis go to waste, Schwab, WEC’s founder and executive chairman, chose the occasion of the pandemic, to introduce his vision to the world. In a June 2020 article on the organization’s website entitled, “Now is the time for a ‘great reset’“, Schwab outlines his aggressive agenda.
“Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed,” he writes. “In short, we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism.”
Historian and conservative commentator Victor Davis Hanson puts the initiative into perspective in the two-minute clip below.
Freeland’s support for the Great Reset and her association with the World Economic Forum is concerning, to say the least, and provides a glimpse into her radical world view.
Moreover, although we shouldn’t taint the granddaughter for the sins of her ancestor, it’s worth noting that Freeland’s grandfather was the editor of a German propaganda newspaper.
In March 2017, during Freeland’s tenure as Foreign Affairs Minister, it was widely reported in the Canadian press that her grandfather, Michael Chomiak (formerly Mykhailo Khomiak) who immigrated to Canada from Ukraine following World War II, had been a Nazi collaborator. Freeland’s office denied these reports.
The Ottawa Citizen reported at the time that Paul Grod, president of the Canadian Ukrainian Congress, told Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail: “It is the continued Russian modus operandi that they have. Fake news, disinformation and targeting different individuals. It is just so outlandish when you hear some of these allegations – whether they are directed at minister Freeland or others.”
Most Canadian media outlets have followed the lead of the U.S. media in becoming mere mouthpieces for the federal government. Globe and Mail articles from that time may be available to subscribers, however, attempts to access reports about Chomiak are labeled as follows: “This article was published more than 4 years ago. Some information may no longer be current.”
According to The Ottawa Citizen piece, during World War II, Chomiak was the editor of a newspaper called Krakivski Visti:
Chomiak noted he edited the paper first in Crakow (Cracow), Poland and then in Vienna. The reason he edited the paper in Vienna was because he had to flee with his Nazis colleagues as the Russians advanced into Poland. (The Russians tended to execute collaborators well as SS members).
So what was the Krakivski Visti? It, like a number of publications, had been seized by the Nazis from their Jewish owners and then operated as propaganda outlets.
Here is what the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum has to say about Krakivski Visti and a similar newspaper, Lvivski Visti, both publications associated with the Nazi regime.
“The editorial boards carried out a policy of soliciting Ukrainian support for the German cause,” the Holocaust Museum noted. “It was typical, within these publications, to not to give any accounts of the German genocidal policy, and largely, the editions resorted to silencing the mass killing of Jews in Galicia. Ukrainian newspapers presented the Jewish Question in light of the official Nazi propaganda, corollary to the Jewish world conspiracy.”
“In 1943 and 1944, both Lvivski Visti and Krakivski Visti hailed the German-approved formation of the 14th Waffen SS Division Halychyna, composed of Ukrainian volunteers,” the museum pointed out.
So much for Russian disinformation.
On Wednesday the Globe and Mail reported that, “Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland knew for more than two decades that her maternal Ukrainian grandfather was the chief editor of a Nazi newspaper.”
At any rate, just as blue state governors in the U.S. quickly developed a taste for emergency powers during the pandemic, Freeland is clearly delighted with hers.
As far as the more “extraordinary measures” she said shouldn’t “be part of the toolbox of a government in ordinary times,” don’t be surprised if those, too, become permanent.
This woman is bad news.
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Freeland has to have an “Affirmer”, or “nodder” behind her, to drive home her poor version of tyranny. That woman bothers me, an awful lot. Anyone wanting to punish, for the sake of it, is trouble.
One thing I can say about her. She fits in with Lil Justin, real well. Both are complete fools. Maybe, when Lil Justin goes down in flames, he will take her with him.