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Throughout the leading Western democracies there is mounting disarray and political collapse (with one important exception I’ll come to).

The German government, already teetering, collapsed officially yesterday. The French government has delegitimized itself by refusing to heed the expressed will of French voters, and is turning to lawfare to disqualify its leading opponent (sound familiar?). The Romanian supreme court has nullified an election because the wrong person won (populism again), claiming Russian interference. Sound familiar? (In this case there may be something to it, but still, would a court have invalidated the election if the “approved” candidate won?) In Britain, the new government elected in a landslide is seeing the lowest public approval ratings of any new government since opinion surveys began decades ago. And in South Korea, the lonely (in more ways than one) president has been impeached, and a period of chaos seems to be the next chapter.

Now it’s Canada’s turn. As I write (early Tuesday morning on the left coast), Justin Trudeau’s ruling Liberal Party is on the ropes, and it is possible Trudeau may resign by the time these pixels make their way through your router. The precipitating event is the resignation of Trudeau’s finance minister, Chrystia Freeland. Freeland blames the disarray of Trudeau’s government on . . . Donald Trump! Here’s her resignation letter:

First, I think the real reason for Liberal Party panic is that they read the polls and know that the Liberal Party under Trudeau is going to get wiped out at the next election, and their only possible chance of survival is to get rid of the miserable and unpopular Trudeau.

But second, let’s keep in mind that Freeland is a left-wing nut job of the worst sort. I reported here last year about how repulsively smug Freeland is from the evidence of her commencement speech at Northeastern University in Boston. Her main claim was that climate change should lead us all to reject capitalism, of course. Freeland was one of the prominent voices in Canada’s government pushing to debank the Covid-resisting truckers back in 2021, even to the point of wanting the dissenting workers to be labeled officially as terrorists.

This little detail from her Wikipedia biography perhaps helps explain why she might want to label political opponents as terrorists, as the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree:

Freeland’s maternal grandfather, Michael Chomiak, 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 daily newspaper Krakivs’ki Visti (Kraków News) for the Nazi regime. 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 (and also Freeland’s uncle by marriage), used Chomiak’s records, including old issues of the newspaper, as the basis of several scholarly papers focused on the coverage of Soviet mass murders of Ukrainian civilians. These papers also examined the use of these massacres as Nazi propaganda against Jews.

In 2017, when Russian-affiliated websites, e.g. Russia Insider and New Cold War, further publicized Chomiak’s connection to Nazism, Freeland and her spokespeople responded by claiming that this was a Russian disinformation campaign during her appointment to the position of minister of foreign affairs. Her office later denied Chomiak ever collaborated with Nazi Germany. 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. (Emphasis added.)

Meanwhile, guess which Western government looks stable and has majority public support? That would be Donald Trump.