Christina Alexandra Freeland PC MP (born August 2, 1968) is a Canadian politician and former journalist who is the member of Parliament (MP) for University—Rosedale. A member of the Liberal Party, Freeland served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2025 and was the 10th deputy prime minister of Canada from 2019 to 2024. She was first elected as the MP for Toronto Centre in 2013 and has represented University—Rosedale since 2015.

Following the 2015 federal election, Freeland was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to serve as the minister of international trade and became the minister of foreign affairs in 2017, as Canada negotiated the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) and finalized the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). In 2019, she became deputy prime minister and minister of intergovernmental affairs, serving in the latter role until 2020 when she became minister of finance. As finance minister, Freeland introduced four federal budgets, including federal aid measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, and was the first woman to serve in the role.

In December 2024, she resigned from Cabinet on the day she was scheduled to present the government's fall economic statement. This led to a political crisis which ultimately resulted in the resignation of Trudeau. Freeland ran in the subsequent election for Liberal leader in 2025, placing a distant second to Mark Carney. In March 2025, she rejoined Cabinet as Carney named her minister of transport and internal trade, roles she held until resigning from Cabinet in September. She was appointed to be special representative for the reconstruction of Ukraine, as parliamentary secretary to the prime minister. In July 2026, Freeland will become the warden of Rhodes House and chief executive officer of the Rhodes Trust.

Freeland was born in Peace River, Alberta, on August 2, 1968. Her father, Donald Freeland, was a farmer and lawyer and a member of the Liberal Party. Her paternal grandmother was a Scottish war bride. Her Ukrainian mother, Halyna Chomiak (1946–2007), was also a lawyer, and ran for the New Democratic Party (NDP) in Edmonton Strathcona in the 1988 federal election, and her maternal grandfather was a Nazi collaborator Michael Chomiak.

Freeland's parents divorced when she was nine years old, though she continued to live with both of them.

Freeland was an activist from a young age, organizing a strike in grade five to protest her school's exclusive enrichment classes. She attended Old Scona Academic High School in Edmonton, Alberta for two years before attending the United World College of the Adriatic, in Italy, on a merit scholarship from the Alberta government for a project that sought to promote international peace and understanding.

Freeland studied Russian history and literature at Harvard University. During 1988–89, she was an exchange student at the Taras Shevchenko State University of Kyiv in Soviet Ukraine, where she studied Ukrainian, in which she is fluent. While there, she worked with journalist Bill Keller of The New York Times to document the Bykivnia graves, an unmarked mass grave site where the NKVD (the Soviet secret police) disposed of tens of thousands of dissidents. The official Soviet story held that the graves were the result of Nazi atrocities. She translated the stories of locals who had witnessed covered trucks and "puddles of blood in the road" that predated the Nazi invasion, adding evidence that the site was actually the result of Stalinist repression.

While there she attracted the attention of the KGB, which tagged her with the code name "Frida", and Soviet newspapers, who attacked her as a foreigner meddling in their internal affairs over her contacts with Ukrainian activists. The KGB surveilled Freeland and tapped her phone calls, and documented the young Canadian activist delivering money, video and audio recording equipment, and a personal computer to contacts in Ukraine. She used a diplomat at the Embassy of Canada in Moscow to send material abroad in a secret diplomatic pouch, worked with foreign journalists on stories about life in the Soviet Union, and organized marches and rallies to attract attention and support from Western countries. On her return from a trip to London in March 1989, Freeland was denied re-entry to the Soviet Union. By the time her activism within Ukraine came to an end, Freeland had become the subject of a high-level case study from the KGB on how much damage a single determined individual could inflict on the Soviet Union; a 2021 Globe and Mail article quoted the report by a former officer of the KGB, which had described Freeland as "a remarkable individual", "erudite, sociable, persistent, and inventive in achieving her goals".