After the Canadian deputy prime minister’s declaration in Washington, D.C., last week that the “end of history” has itself now officially come to an end, Chrystia Freeland is bringing her message home to Canadians.
But as Freeland announced that we must abandon the optimism that post-communist countries would gradually turn into healthy democracies and good global citizens, some critics were warning that she was helping to widen a new great divide in trade and politics that may not be as favourable to Canada as the original Cold War.
