Chrystia Freeland is at the center of the Canada-Ukraine file. In Plutocrats she spelled out the worldview shaped by the circles around Mark and Diana Carney—the same people who later became the core of the Liberal economic and global agenda. Billions in taxpayer commitments have followed. Veterans face housing support cuts. Grocery bills remain far above 2021. Housing starts and affordability numbers have not matched the rhetoric. The post below frames it as blood relations and continuity. The public record shows family history on the wartime paper, the named influences in the book, the godfather relationship, the envoy and adviser roles, and the aid totals. Priorities are choices. Kitchen table first.