TNC: 'Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland was photographed on Sunday with a scarf promoting a far-right Ukrainian Nationalist movement linked to Neo-Nazis and extremism.
'Remarkably, Freeland (or more likely, a member of her staff) posted the photo to her own official social media accounts, apparently ignorant of the radical far-right movement the scarf represents.
'It also doesn’t help that “Freeland’s granddad was, indeed, a Nazi collaborator” in Ukraine, as reported by the Ottawa Citizen. He was the chief editor of a Nazi propaganda newspaper during the Second World War.
'The Globe and Mail reported that Freeland’s office denied that her grandfather was a Nazi collaborator, but later reported that Freeland had known about her family history for decades.'
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