It’s public knowledge that there have been efforts – as U.S. intelligence sources have said – by Russia to destabilize the U.S. political system. I think that Canadians and, indeed, other Western countries should be prepared for similar efforts to be directed at us. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to muster the collective will to resolve: how effective government is, regardless of its scale. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
The triumph of economic liberalization has coincided with a sharp increase in income inequality. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
I love the Internet. I love my mobile devices. I love the fact that they mean that whoever chooses to will be able to watch this talk far beyond this auditorium. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality – financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider privatization in Russia; rent-seeking in regulated industries in India and Mexico. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty – and you should. However, it’s the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy . The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
My late mother moved back to her parents’ homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
One consequence of Russia’s klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs. Chrystia Freeland Read Quote
