15h agoCanada wants Russia to be barred from IMF and G-20Bloomberg NewsIMF slashes global growth outlook on 'seismic waves' from Ukraine invasionCanada and its allies want Russia out of Ukraine, with the northern nation also pushing for it to be ejected from the international community entirely.Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland didn’t hold back on her opposition to Russian officials being at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group this week.“The IMF and World Bank meetings are meetings of the firefighters -- of ministers and central bank governors, whose jobs is to protect the global economy,” Freeland, who is of Ukrainian heritage and is also Canada’s deputy prime minister, told reporters Friday in Washington.Arsonists have no place in meetings of the firefighters.”Pressed on what Canada can do to remove Russia from the IMF or the Group of 20, she conceded that at this point all it can do is publicly call out President Vladimir Putin’s government for its decision to go to war with its neighbor.Freeland said the presence of Ukraine’s Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko in Washington was “very important” and that his message was “very powerful.”“He spoke very effectively about what is happening in Ukraine."