Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is calling on the federal government to spare no effort in freezing the Canadian assets of Russian oligarchs with ties to Vladimir Putin.
Canada has introduced several rounds of economic sanctions against Russia and some of its oligarchs, and has halted export permits to the country.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is now in its sixth day. It has been pounding civilian targets in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, and a convoy of tanks and other vehicles continues to threaten the capital, Kyiv.
Attention has been turning to oligarchs with stakes in Canada’s natural resource sectors, including a
