Interesting front pager in the Globe today about Jean Chretien inserting himself into the China file. There seems to be deep bipartisan support for someone, anyone, to get this thing unstuck.
What was new to me was that our justice minister has the authority to overrule the extradition process. I don't recall reading that in previous stories about our Huawei adventure. What I heard instead was a lot of gibberish about "rule of law" etc. What I see is feckless toadying to the Trump gang.
Bearing in mind that Meng Wanzhou's original sin was violating America's unilateral and illegal Iran sanctions, her arrest was an outrage from the beginning. If the justice minister has had the authority to free her, why hasn't it happened? These are reasonable questions for anyone remotely capable of standing up to US bully tactics.
Instead, we've had six months of slipping and sliding and dodging the issue on the part of our PM and his laughably inept Foreign Minister. They do great work grandstanding in the media, orchestrating photo-ops, and spewing platitudes.
But what's getting done?
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