Trump and Putin both hate Chrystia Freeland. But her ability to unite world leaders under a single banner isn’t her greatest accolade. Freeland is quite simply one of the most acrcomplished public servants in Canada’s history. For starters, she was the first woman to serve as finance minister. She helped introduce $10 a day daycare in this country. She was also instrumental in the fall of the Trudeau government, and currently she runs the Rhodes Scholarship and works as an economic advisor for Ukraine.
But more than any of that, Freeland has been one of the closest observers of globalization over the past 30 years. She saw its birth as a journalist in Russia in the 1990s, and she saw its death while working as deputy prime minister for Canada in the 2020s. Chrystia Freeland joins us today to talk about that front row seat at the rise and seeming demise of globalization.
This conversation is the launch of our upcoming speakers series The Nuance. It’s a simple idea: important conversations on complex subjects with informed guests in front of a live audience.
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