I think you're smelling what I'm selling. Chrystia Freeland is intensely anti-Russian. And as Chechnya is a part of Russia, she sees an opportunity to stick a finger in Putin's eye. It's the kind of thing you see all the time in conflicted family relations, which pretty much sums up the Russian/Ukrainian/Putin/Freeland bun fight.

Human rights shouldn't be the excuse a foreign minister with a hate-on uses to justify her actions. If that happens, a further human rights abuse occurs. Canada should help those who are in greatest danger when human rights are at risk, and it should do so regardless of the economic or political consequences. Doing it for any other reason is self-serving, and an affront to the dignity of our country.