 "Plutocrats" was the winner of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize for non-fiction reporting on foreign affairs.It also won the 2013 National Business Book Award for the most outstanding Canadian business-related book.Her father, Donald Freeland, was a farmer and lawyer and a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, and her mother, Halyna Chomiak (1946–2007), was also a lawyer who ran for election in Edmonton Strathcona in the 1988 federal election, representing the New Democratic Party.