Chrystia "Gloria Steinem" Freeland

Well, Ms. Freeland has really done it this time.  She, with her ideological bullhorn about women's rights, has managed to get billions of dollars in trade with Saudi Arabia cancelled and in the process ruin the educations of 16,000 Saudis studying in Canada who have now been called back.  And let's not forget the fact that Ontario and Quebec get their oil from Saudi Arabia.  Gee, I wonder how objectionable and deplorable Energy East now will be?!

Way to go!  Just as she tied the NAFTA negotiations to women's rights, LGBT issues et al, and got herself thrown out of the room, so she has now done with The Kingdom.  What an idiot.  Canada can exert its own values within Canada, but it cannot do so for another sovereign state.  Canada does not set Saudi values and laws, the Saudis do -- just as that country cannot dictate its values and impose its laws here.  Rather than support the efforts of the Saudis in their recent breakthroughs of allowing women to vote and drive, she rams a hundred years of Canadian progress in women's rights down their throats in one tweet. 

And speaking of a few bedraggled "Canadian" values, why do we allow women to vote and take the citizenship oath in full burka?  Except for the "intelligencia" and the "enlightened", Canadians don't like it one bit.     

Having been at many ministerial briefings, I can just see Freeland at the table listening to no one but herself.  She is in capable of actual thought.  She is, in fact, a disgrace to her gender.  Instead of educating herself about global and world affairs by listening to the experienced heads within Foreign Affairs around the table, she rattles on about women's rights and shoves them in the faces of other "unenlightened" countries with other values.  Reminds me of the women I worked for as I got older and closer to retirement who thought they were smarter than I because they happened to be my manger.

Wrong.

Here are the two women Freeland's support for whom will cost the Canadian government $4 billion, $132 million of it right here in Alberta:

  Don't expect the Saudis to back down.  They won't.  Canada is effed.