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A spokesman for the new foreign affairs minister says Ottawa isn’t interested in bargaining with Russia.
Chrystia Freeland was put on the Kremlin’s sanctions list in 2014 in retaliation for the sanctions Canada imposed on Russia over the invasion of Crimea. Freeland’s people are rejecting suggestions from Moscow it could lift its sanctions against Freeland in exchange for Canada lifting sanctions against Russia.
President-elect Donald Trump has said for the first time that he does think Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic Party emails ahead of the U-S presidential election. He’s been denying it since the story first broke.
In a combative news conference yesterday, Trump strongly denied claims that Russia possesses compromising personal or financial information about him. He also slammed various media and reporters for publishing details of those allegations.