I criticize, in the strongest terms, the blatantly political nature of Chrystia Freeland's action, and I condemn Canada's hypocritical unwillingness to take any action against countries that are far worse violators of the human rights of homosexuals.

In Chechnya, we're primarily seeing a government name and shame attack on homosexuals, who are then vulnerable to violence even from their own families. Yet in Saudi Arabia, homosexuality is punishable with death by public beheading. (As are blasphemy, idolatry, apostasy, witchcraft and sorcery.) These aren't discredited laws that are never enforced. Those 'crimes' are actively prosecuted and punished.

So why does Saudi Arabia get a pass from Chrystia Freeland and the Liberals? Because that country buys billions of dollars of weapons from Canada. Which it then, recently, used on a religious minority as well. There's no human decency underlying Freeland's act. It's just a political poke in the eye to Russia.