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Chrystia Freeland, a capable Minister of International Trade of Canada

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Chrystia Freeland, a capable Minister of International Trade of Canada

Frank Apr. 6, 2016, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Today, Apr. 6, 2016, I read article Chrystia Freeland well-suited for International Trade portfolio that introduce about Canadian International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, I was moved by some of her views on the economical and political issues of Canada.

The views showed personal quality of Ms. Chrystia Freeland - rational, foresight and sagacity; which encouraged me to search more about her and was further moved.

Ms. Chrystia Freeland as born in Peace River, Alberta, Canada; and was educated at Harvard University then studied on a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford and good at speaking of Russian, Ukrainian, Italian, French, and English.

Then she worked in journalism as a Ukraine-based freelance correspondent for the Financial Times, the Washington Post, and the Economist, with various roles at the Financial Times of London. She once served as deputy editor of the Toronto-based Globe and Mail, and then again worked for Financial Times as deputy editor and United States managing editor.

In 2010, she joined Canadian-owned Thomson Reuters as a managing director of the company and editor of consumer news until she decided to return home and enter politics in 2013.

She wrote two books: 1. Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution (2000); and 2. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (2012).

In the first book, Chrystia Freeland discussed Russia's dramatic, wrenching transition from communist central planning to a market economy and by which play, in a short of period, the wealth that hardly created by the Soviets over the past 70 years has been plundered by domestic financial oligarchs and foreign capitals.

In the second book, Chrystia Freeland indicates that, in nowadays; the greatest income gap is not between the 1% and the 99%, but it is in the wealthiest 0.1% ; which is radical different with the past, in today, most colossal fortunes are not inherited; but newly amassed by perceptive businessmen; and as the wealth of the entire globalized world is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.

Ms. Chrystia Freeland has a background of Russian history and literature from Harvard University and Slavonic Studies from University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. As a winner of Rhodes Scholar that was difficult to win showed her quality in innate talent and acquired diligence, which are the essential base as capable person with rational thinking and behaving.

The studies on Russian history and Slavic will help her accumulation of historical experiences and the lessons of social governance in-depth understanding. The journalism career certainly made her deeply watched and thought the complex social issues, especially, the financial and economic related in observation and analysis of the real-time financial and economic problems; such useful experiences provided her more practical knowledge and experiences, and thereby enabled her unique ability in rationally dealing with related social problems.

The accumulation of the knowledge and experiences is wisdom, since that knowledge and experiences provide references for a perfect reasoning; it is the prerequisites for making a rational judgment, and thereby making correct practice.

My comment above is based on the human nature biologically and physiologically.

July 26, 2014, in the article Recruit employee by the quality of brain not the academic degree, I indicate that:

Recent years, scientists have learnt more clearly about human brain structure and work mechanism. Our brain is an extraordinarily complex organ that is made up of many different structures. Any of human behaviors is dominated by the specific population of cells in the brain.

More evidences have showed that various mental disorders are connected with abnormality or atrophy in brain. The antisocial behaviors are also caused by mental disorders, such as reports – Scans reveal differences in brain structure of antisocial teens, Criminal Minds Are Different from Yours, Brain Scans Reveal, and Happiness linked to size of precuneus in Brain.

The brain study and harsh reality both proved that, It is the difference in the quality of human brain caused the difference in the quality of people, though all people were featured as higher animal, but, the nature of some people were in low quality as that of lower animal in reckless behaving or antisocial attacking, the cause is that they cannot make proper judgment due to their brain cannot make rational reasoning.

Besides the problem in the brain, that lacks knowledge as reference for reasoning is also the reason.

Modern studies show that Brain Cells can regenerate, it is the foundation that we can remember those what we have experienced in the past and can remember those what we will be experienced in the future.

The wide range of studies and social experiences will perfect brain in the structure with increasing new populations of brain cells, and the more brain cells in memorizing the experiences for the successes or failures will provide more references for perfect reasoning with more perfect decision making and less extreme and mistake.

It is that more in success, less in mistake and perfect predictability made a person as wise.

The wisdom of a wise depends on the memorized contents in the brain. A wise must be a socially responsible person at first.

If a person is lack of social experiences and extensive reading, the person will fall into as that of watching sky by sitting in the bottom of a deep well, which will largely narrow the field of the vision, and thereby limit the scope and the depth of the thinking. Thus, when faced with intractable social problems, the person cannot flexibility come up with feasible solutions. It will be more harmful for those who are on the key position of the government.

On other hand, that even with same innate quality of the brain, if the content of education applied repeatedly on something specifically, such as some doctrine, that person may become fanatics of the doctrine, because the content of doctrine is the only available reference in brain for reasoning and judging.

Due to unable rational judgment, those brain defective people would easily accept extreme preaching, or to be lured as a member of some kind of people grouping, become an ignorant fanatics for some deceptive doctrine, even under some extreme appealing to perform terror attacks. They are even brutal than that of most ferocious beasts in harming others without slightest empathy.

The understanding for the structure and work mechanism of human brain has provided useful evidence and reference to force human beings updating the way in social governance, which is to select brain well developed high quality people as policy maker to perform proper social governance. It is to perform social ruling by social member with brain in distinguishing quality of to proper control of those low quality people to reduce their harms.

The rich knowledge and experiences of Ms. Chrystia Freeland will help her be able to make rational judgments with more feasible new ideas for social governance, especially in today's extremely difficult international and domestic economic environment, which need more groundbreaking innovations in the approaches for social governance.

In particular, the knowledge and experiences in cross-countries will make her less ethnic and political prejudices. Without such interference under ignorance, she was able to seize the key of the issues and be able to effectively solving thorny social problems.

More importantly, she is full of sense of social responsibility, which showed from her book - Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich in talking about social polarization.

Nov. 04 2015, article Chrystia Freeland well-suited for International Trade portfolio revealed her concerns and views:

"During the federal election campaign, Freeland said a Liberal government would champion diplomacy. 'We need a prime minister who is about uniting the country and about having relationships inside the country and outside the country that are productive,' she said."

"Freeland has preached an economic platform that both supports technological growth and social welfare, arguing that Canada needs to encourage innovation both at home and abroad if it wants to combat income inequality."

“'We are living in an age of winner-take-all economic forces. But ultimately our communities will thrive and our overall economy will grow only if we can harness them and create inclusive prosperity,' she wrote in a 2015 Toronto Star op-ed article."

In 2019, an article reports that Chrystia Freeland said Liberal democracies are being "hijacked by angry populist politicians “the doubts creeping in inside liberal democracy… liberal democracies that are becoming totally polarized societies, divided into these hostile – even warring – tribes who can’t talk to each other, and societies that have been hijacked by angry populist politicians.” Freeland said this theme exists in the “unhappy liberal democracies,” where “the details may be unique but the basic storyline is the same.”

The position of government officials involved in well develop national economy and which deciding the livelihoods of mortal beings, it requires a minimum of experience and theoretical basis, rather than being considered as a means to earn a living by a individual who is with only quality that how to please the voters and how to enjoy the political privilege.

Canada needs more officials as Ms. Chrystia Freeland.

The fact that Ms. Chrystia Freeland was appointed as the Minister of International Trade, a key position in the government, showed the rational of new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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