FREELAND, Hon. Chrystia, P.C., M.P., B.A.; politician, journalist; b. Peace River, Alta.; m. Graham; 3 children; Harvard Univ. B.A.; Oxford Univ. Rhodes Scholar; SPECIAL ENVOY TO UKRAINE, GOVT. OF CANADA 2025–  ; began career as Ukraine-based stringer for Financial Times, Washington Post, The Economist; positions at Financial Times incl. Deputy Ed., U.K. News. Ed., Moscow Bureau Chief, Eastern European Corresp., Ed. of weekend edition, FT.com, and U.S. Managing Ed.; Depy. Ed., The Globe and Mail 1999–2001; Ed.-at-Large, Thompson Reuters 2010, became Mng. Dir. and Ed. of Consumer News; weekly columnist for The Globe and Mail; 1st el. H. of C. by-el. (Toronto Centre) 2013; re-el. (University–Rosedale) 2015, '19, '21, '25; Co-Chair, Liberal Party Econ. Adv. Council; Critic for Internat. Trade; Sworn to the Privy Council 2015; Min. of Intl. Trade, Govt. of Canada 2015–17; Canadian lead on renegotiating NAFTA with the U.S. and Mexico, ultimately forming the USMCA 2018; Min. of Foreign Affairs, Govt. of Canada 2017–19; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance 2017–24; Min. of Transport and Internal Trade 2025 (resigned on 16 Sept. 2025); author: Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution 2000; Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else 2012 (N.Y. Times best-seller, Nat. Book Award 2013, Lionel Gelber Prize 2013, trans. into 11 languages); TED talk on income inequality 2013; in 2015 one of 13 Canadian politicians banned by Russian President Vladimir Putin from travelling to Russia; honours: Foreign Policy's Diplomat of the Year 2018; Atlantik-Brücke's Eric M. Warburg Award 2018; Freedom House’s Mark Palmer Prize 2020; languages: Ukrainian, English, Italian, Russian, French; Liberal; Office: Constituency: 200-622 College St., Toronto ON  M6G 1B4.