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[[File:Freeland nazism.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland holding a nazi banner.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/canadas-deputy-pm-caught-holding-pro-nazi-scarf-at-ukraine-rally</ref>]]

[[File:Freeland nazism.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland holding a nazi banner.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/canadas-deputy-pm-caught-holding-pro-nazi-scarf-at-ukraine-rally</ref>]]

'''Chrystia Freeland''' is the Canadian Deputy Prime Minister of [[Canada]] and Minister of Finance as of 2022. She is a member of the [[totalitarian]] [[fascist]] [[Liberal Party of Canada]] which [[cancel culture|cancelled]] [[human rights]] in February 2022.

'''Chrystia Freeland''' is the Canadian Deputy Prime Minister of [[Canada]] and Minister of Finance as of 2022. She is a member of the [[totalitarian]] [[fascist]] [[Liberal Party of Canada]] which [[cancel culture|cancelled]] [[human rights]] in February 2022. Freeland lied about having knowledge of heer grandfather's [[Nazi]] background during her appointment as Canadian Foreign Minister.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180409142649/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/freeland-knew-her-grandfather-was-editor-of-nazi-newspaper/article34236881/</ref>

==Background==

==Background==

She studied Russian history and literature at [[Harvard University]].  During 1988–89, she was an exchange student at the University of [[Kyiv]] in Ukraine, where she studied the  Ukrainian language.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Retson |first=Don |date=May 20, 1989 |title=Student 'glasnost' chilly |work=Edmonton Journal}}</ref> While there, she worked with journalist Bill Keller of ''[[The New York Times]]'' to document the Bykivnia graves, an unmarked mass grave site where the [[NKVD]] disposed of tens of thousands of dissidents.  The official Soviet story held that the graves were the result of Nazi atrocities. She translated the stories of locals who had witnessed covered trucks and "puddles of blood in the road" that predated the 1941 [[Operation Barbarossa|Nazi invasion]], adding evidence that the site was actually the result of Soviet communist repression.<ref>https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/11/29/how-chrystia-freeland-became-justin-trudeaus-first-star.html</ref>

She studied Russian history and literature at [[Harvard University]].  During 1988–89, she was an exchange student at the University of [[Kyiv]] in Ukraine, where she studied the  Ukrainian language.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Retson |first=Don |date=May 20, 1989 |title=Student 'glasnost' chilly |work=Edmonton Journal}}</ref> While there, she worked with journalist Bill Keller of ''[[The New York Times]]'' to document the Bykivnia graves, an unmarked mass grave site where the [[NKVD]] disposed of tens of thousands of dissidents.  The official Soviet story held that the graves were the result of Nazi atrocities. She translated the stories of locals who had witnessed covered trucks and "puddles of blood in the road" that predated the 1941 [[Operation Barbarossa|Nazi invasion]], adding evidence that the site was actually the result of Soviet communist repression.<ref>https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/11/29/how-chrystia-freeland-became-justin-trudeaus-first-star.html</ref>

Freeland's maternal grandfather, Michael Chomiak (Ukrainian: Mykhailo Khomiak), had been a journalist before World War II. During the war in Nazi-occupied [[Poland]] and later in Nazi-occupied [[Austria]] he was chief editor of the Ukrainian [[antisemitic]] daily newspaper ''Krakivs'ki visti'' (''News of Krakow'') for the Nazi regime.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180609231023/http://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/paula-simons-school-of-hate-was-foreign-affairs-minister-chrystia-freelands-grandfather-a-nazi-collaborator</ref> After Chomiak's death in 1984, John-Paul Himka, a professor of history at the University of Alberta, who was Chomiak's son-in-law used Chomiak's records, including old issues of the newspaper, as the basis of several scholarly papers focused on the coverage of Soviet era mass-murders of Ukrainian civilians. These papers also examined the use of these massacres as [[propaganda]] against [[Jews]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162206/http://www.timeandspace.lviv.ua/files/session/Himka%20Ethnicity%20and%20Reporting_210.doc ''Krakivs'ki visti'' published materials from German papers, especially the Nazi party organ ''Völkischer Beobachter'', which appeared frequently. Articles were also translated from ''Berliner Illustrierte Nachtausgabe'' and all most important Berlin papers."</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=D9wEXp_uyoYC&q=Krakivs%27ki+Visti+connection Ethnicity and the Reporting of Mass Murder |work=Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands]</ref> In 2017, when Chomiak's connection to Nazism appeared online, Freeland responded that it was a "Russian [[disinformation]]" during her appointment as Canadian Foreign Minister.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141531/http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chrystia-freelands-granddad-was-indeed-a-nazi-collaborator-so-much-for-russian-disinformation</ref><ref>https://www.webcitation.org/6xokirVEo?url=http://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-of-course-its-news-that-freelands-grampa-was-a-nazi-collaborator-even-if-the-russians-are-spreading-it</ref><ref>http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/terry-glavin-enter-the-freeland-nazi-conspiracy-and-the-amping-up-of-russias-mischief-in-canada </ref><ref> Her office later denied Chomiak ever collaborated with the [[Nazi Germany]].<ref>https://archive.today/20180406174940/http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/russian-diplomat-calls-expulsions-over-remarks-un-canadian</ref> However, reporting by ''The Globe and Mail'' showed that Freeland had known of her grandfather's Nazi ties since at least 1996, when she helped edit a scholarly article by Himka for the ''Journal of Ukrainian Studies''.

 

Freeland's maternal grandfather, Michael Chomiak (Ukrainian: Mykhailo Khomiak), had been a journalist before World War II. During the war in Nazi-occupied [[Poland]] and later in Nazi-occupied [[Austria]] he was chief editor of the Ukrainian [[antisemitic]] daily newspaper ''Krakivs'ki visti'' (''News of Krakow'') for the Nazi regime.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Simons |first=Paula |date=March 8, 2017 |title=Paula Simons: 'School of hate': Was Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland's grandfather a Nazi collaborator? |work=Edmonton Journal |url=https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/paula-simons-school-of-hate-was-foreign-affairs-minister-chrystia-freelands-grandfather-a-nazi-collaborator |url-status=live |access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180609231023/http://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/paula-simons-school-of-hate-was-foreign-affairs-minister-chrystia-freelands-grandfather-a-nazi-collaborator |archive-date=June 9, 2018}}</ref> After Chomiak's death in 1984, John-Paul Himka, a professor of history at the University of Alberta, who was Chomiak's son-in-law used Chomiak's records, including old issues of the newspaper, as the basis of several scholarly papers focused on the coverage of Soviet era mass-murders of Ukrainian civilians. These papers also examined the use of these massacres as [[propaganda]] against [[Jews]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Himka |first=John-Paul |author-link=John-Paul Himka |title=Ethnicity and the Reporting of Mass Murder: ''Krakivs'ki visti'', the NKVD Murders of 1941, and the Vinnytsia Exhumation |url=http://www.timeandspace.lviv.ua/files/session/Himka%20Ethnicity%20and%20Reporting_210.doc |journal=Time and Space |location=Lviv |publisher=University of Alberta |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162206/http://www.timeandspace.lviv.ua/files/session/Himka%20Ethnicity%20and%20Reporting_210.doc |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |quote=''Krakivs'ki visti'' published materials from German papers, especially the Nazi party organ ''Völkischer Beobachter'', which appeared frequently. Articles were also translated from ''Berliner Illustrierte Nachtausgabe'' and all most important Berlin papers.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Іван-Павло Химка: "Історична політика є хворобою всіх посткомуністичних країн" |url=https://commons.com.ua/uk/istorichna-politika-ye-hvoroboyu-vsih-postkomunistichnih-krayin/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206001810/https://commons.com.ua/uk/istorichna-politika-ye-hvoroboyu-vsih-postkomunistichnih-krayin/ |archive-date=December 6, 2018 |access-date=}} Himka's account of the Khomiak story from an interview (in Ukrainian).</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Himka |first=John-Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D9wEXp_uyoYC&q=Krakivs%27ki+Visti+connection |title=Ethnicity and the Reporting of Mass Murder |work=Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0253006394 |editor-last=Bartov |editor-first=Omer |author-link=John-Paul Himka |editor-last2=Weitz |editor-first2=Eric D.}}</ref> In 2017, when Chomiak's connection to Nazism appeared online, Freeland responded that it was a "Russian [[disinformation]]" during her appointment as Canadian Foreign Minister.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pugliese |first=David |date=March 8, 2017 |title=Chrystia Freeland's granddad was indeed a Nazi collaborator – so much for Russian disinformation |work=Ottawa Citizen |location=Ottawa |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chrystia-freelands-granddad-was-indeed-a-nazi-collaborator-so-much-for-russian-disinformation |url-status=live |access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141531/http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/chrystia-freelands-granddad-was-indeed-a-nazi-collaborator-so-much-for-russian-disinformation |archive-date=June 12, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Cosh |first=Colby |date=March 8, 2018 |title=Colby Cosh: Of course it's 'news' that Freeland's grampa was a Nazi collaborator, even if the Russians are spreading it |work=National Post |url=http://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-of-course-its-news-that-freelands-grampa-was-a-nazi-collaborator-even-if-the-russians-are-spreading-it |url-status=live |access-date= |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6xokirVEo?url=http://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-of-course-its-news-that-freelands-grampa-was-a-nazi-collaborator-even-if-the-russians-are-spreading-it |archive-date=March 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Glavin |first=Terry |date=March 8, 2017 |title=Terry Glavin: Enter the Freeland-Nazi conspiracy — and the amping-up of Russia's mischief in Canada |work=National Post |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/terry-glavin-enter-the-freeland-nazi-conspiracy-and-the-amping-up-of-russias-mischief-in-canada |url-status=live |access-date= |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20171006181751/http://nationalpost.com/opinion/terry%2Dglavin%2Denter%2Dthe%2Dfreeland%2Dnazi%2Dconspiracy%2Dand%2Dthe%2Damping%2Dup%2Dof%2Drussias%2Dmischief%2Din%2Dcanada |archive-date=October 6, 2017}}</ref><ref> Her office later denied Chomiak ever collaborated with the [[Nazi Germany]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pugliese |first=David |title=Exclusive: Russian diplomat booted from Canada has some advice for Trudeau — it won't work |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/russian-diplomat-calls-expulsions-over-remarks-un-canadian |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180406174940/http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/russian-diplomat-calls-expulsions-over-remarks-un-canadian |archive-date=April 6, 2018 |access-date=|website=National Post}}</ref> However, reporting by ''The Globe and Mail'' showed that Freeland had known of her grandfather's Nazi ties since at least 1996, when she helped edit a scholarly article by Himka for the ''Journal of Ukrainian Studies''.

==Seizure of bank accounts==

==Seizure of bank accounts==

Freeland announced an expansion of “terrorist financing” rules that would allow banks to freeze assets with no oversight when the Liberal Party of Canada suspended the [[Canadian Charter of Rights]] and declared martial law in February 2022. The new measures also apply to crowdfunding outlets and payment processing providers.  “We are broadening the scope of Canada’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use,” Freeland said. The expanded rules also apply to digital assets, such as cryptocurrency. In enacting the changes, Freeland said that what she claimed were "illegal" blockades "...have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms and some of the payment service providers they use are not fully captured under the proceeds of crime and terrorist financing act." All crowdfunding platforms and service providers were required to register with the Canadian government’s financial intelligence unit, FINTRAC, and report “large and suspicious transactions.”<ref>https://nationalfile.com/canada-expand-scope-terrorist-financing-rules-will-allow-banks-freeze-assets-no-oversight/</ref>  The seizures were retroactive, meaning accounts could be frozen for actions taken prior to martial law being imposed.

Freeland announced an expansion of “terrorist financing” rules that would allow banks to freeze assets with no oversight when the Liberal Party of Canada suspended the [[Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]] and declared martial law in February 2022. The new measures also apply to crowdfunding outlets and payment processing providers.  “We are broadening the scope of Canada’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use,” Freeland said. The expanded rules also apply to digital assets, such as cryptocurrency. In enacting the changes, Freeland said that what she claimed were "illegal" blockades "...have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms and some of the payment service providers they use are not fully captured under the proceeds of crime and terrorist financing act." All crowdfunding platforms and service providers were required to register with the Canadian government’s financial intelligence unit, FINTRAC, and report “large and suspicious transactions.”<ref>https://nationalfile.com/canada-expand-scope-terrorist-financing-rules-will-allow-banks-freeze-assets-no-oversight/</ref>  The seizures were retroactive, meaning accounts could be frozen for actions taken prior to martial law being imposed.

GPS tracking of cell phone data is able to identify anyone within the vicinity of where protests take place.

GPS tracking of cell phone data is able to identify anyone within the vicinity of where protests take place.