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It is unfortunate that Chrystia Freeland decided to accept an economic-development position from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a quintessentially flaky Trudeauvian flourish: Instead of resigning her seat in the House of Commons immediately after taking on a role in a foreign government, as anyone halfway sane would have advised her to, she first said nothing about it, and then 12 hours later said she would step down “in the coming weeks.” So the MP for University—Rosedale is now at least nominally in a position of stewardship over the economic redevelopment of a war-ravaged country halfway around the world with roughly the same population as Canada’s.

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Perhaps ironically, Freeland did perceive a need to resign immediately as Canada’s special representative on Ukraine’s reconstruction.

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Like many of the Trudeau Gang’s decisions, it doesn’t seem to make much sense on any level — even a cynical political one, like keeping the Liberal minority in the House of Commons as robust as possible.........

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