It’s become passe to note that Chrystia Freeland’s
grandfather was a Nazi. It’s even become passe to note that hers were not ‘sins
of the [grand]father’ but rather current offences by playing both booster andapologist for fascists who wield power in Ukraine today. The pretense, once
wildly pantomimed by Scott Gilmore, or Terry Glavin, or Justin Ling, that
Freeland is anything but her grandfather’s granddaughter has withered and died.
Now it is simply accepted, and ignored, in the media that Freeland openly
supports reactionary, xenophobic, and pro-US-Empire forces wherever and
whenever they are. But her latest gaffe cannot be ignored, it is too massive,
too beneath contempt, too glaringly at odds with her Liberal Government’s
platitudes about ‘truth’ and ‘reconciliation’ with First Nations peoples in
Canada.
At a ‘roundtable’ of Gold Company lobbyists, mouth-frothy
over their imperialist profiteering being curtailed, in an auditorium built on
the blood of oppressed peoples in the global south, that heaving bellend,
Chrystia Freeland, had the temerity to suggest that it was ‘funny’ to say thatCanada was an imperialist oppressor because Canada ‘was the colony.’ In other
words, Freeland is attempting to suggest that it is impossible that Canada be
party to, implicated in, and culpable for imperialist oppression, exploitation,
and primitive accumulation because once upon a time Canada was a colony of
Britain. Oh *dusts hands* well then, that settles that, doesn’t it? Here we
have the Foreign Affairs Minister of a Government which has made ‘truth’ and ‘reconciliation’
tweet-fodder for months, claiming that Canada is permanently exempt from the
category of ‘Empire’ and that it is absurd to suggest it. This is heinous, this
is foul.
Clearly this gaffe will garner little if any airtime on the
CBC or pagespace in the bourgeois rags like the Post or the Mail, but it
deserves to, clearly. This is a level of ignorance, cynicism, willful and
concerted historical myopia that would make Kellie Leitch blush. To imply
that Canada, at very least in the post-Dominion era, hasn’t been a willing and
avid sub-Imperialist crony, party to theft, deprivation, and domination, isn’t
just ridiculous, it’s loathesome.
This past month Venezuela held an election for regional
governors, and the results did not go the way reactionary cretins like Freeland
had hoped. This they took as an opportunity to heap scorn, bile, and falsehoods
upon the Maduro government, a cacophony of baseless accusations, with Freeland
feeling entitled to implicate her Government in her own personal descent into
reactionary paranoia. No opposition groups have offered up evidence for their
claims of the illegitimacy of the election, impartial and international election
monitors have said explicitly that there is none.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs has anointed herself a
knight in a farcical crusade on behalf of plutocrats, exploiters, cartels,
mining companies, their thugs and lackeys. This was never sustainable, but, before this, the
Trudeau Government could always sweep her less savory outbursts under the rug of
some contrived hypocrisy of ‘universal rights.’ Not this one, however. In her
comments today the Minister has crossed the Rubicon into the same space
occupied by Senator Lynn Beyak – an irretrievably, irrevocably racist, reactionary,
inaccurate conception of the recent past.
Every learned voice should heap calumny upon Freeland, and
all the jackals of the Trudeau Government, for not only their vulgar
falsehoods, but their absence of even the most rudimentary fidelity to the
gospel of ‘reconciliation’ from which they preach. Pious Pharisees
pontificating ahistorical fiction totally indiscernible from the most ardent
fascist. This is not a repudiation of contemporary liberalism, this is contemporary
liberalism.
Right now the Trudeau Liberals are reeling from the
all-too-deserved scrutiny on corporate vulture Bill Morneau and his
profiteering off elderly pensioners. Justice would dictate that he share the
frying pan with Chrystia Freeland, who has tipped her cards, fumbled her façade,
and openly opined one of the most ignorant and vile mystifications in Canadian
history. Freeland is a duplicitous, disingenuous, cowardly racist. How can Justin Trudeau possibly justify keeping her, given the glaring incongruity between his Government's rhetoric and the Minister's self-exculpatory, self-serving mystifications and lies about History?
