World will likely continue facing a ‘tyrannical Russia’, Freeland warns
The end has been hard to process, especially after the sacrifices of the Second World War and the superpowered nuclear brinksmanship that followed it, Freeland told Canada-U.S. scholars and stakeholders at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington, D.C.“It was a relief and a vindication to imagine the entire world peacefully marching together towards global liberal democracy,” she said. “It is dispiriting and frightening to accept that it is not.
“We need to understand that authoritarian regimes are fundamentally hostile to us. Our success is an existential threat to them. That is why they have tried to subvert our democracies from within and why we should expect them to continue to do so.”‘We could be at a turning point’: Freeland comments on Putin’s nuclear threats – Sep 21, 2022
She cited the example of the Inflation Reduction Act, a multibillion-dollar climate, tax and health spending package passed by Congress in August that includes a tax-credit scheme designed to foster the production and sale of electric vehicles. Freeland mentioned the European Union’s willingness to allow its vaccine manufacturers to honour existing contracts with non-European allies, including Canada, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.Canada sending 40 combat engineers to Poland to train Ukrainian troops
Trudeau has since said Canada would be willing to ease regulatory requirements for such projects to help ease Europe’s supply crunch, but has also said it would be up to industry to decide whether such an endeavour would be feasible.
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