The Two Michaels rule the front page of The Globe and Mail again today, but there is a hopeful sign the paper is easing its censorship of an obvious counter-narrative to the "rule of law" idiocy PM Trudeau's office has steadfastly put forward for the last year and a half.
"Ottawa can free Meng now, Arbour says," reads the top headline. Louise Arbour is one of the most widely respected international jurists Canada has ever produced.
The Globe and Mail could have splashed that headline across any of its 450+ front pages it has published since Kovrig and Spavor were apprehended, because it's not "news" that the government has had the authority to legally and with all due respect for "rule of law" send Meng home since the day we foolishly took her into custody.
Our first and wisest choice would have been to decline the US extradition request in the first place. What is it to Canada if a Chinese company ignores arbitrary and unilateral sanctions America has imposed on Iran?
Instead, we've been presented a steady stream of drivel about how our refusing to toady to the Americans would violate "the rule of law," whereas the sanctions themselves, having utterly no basis in any kind of law, are treated as some sort of self-evident act of moral virtue.
Uncle Sam good, Ayatollahs bad, and that's all any good Canadian needs to know.
By sucking up to the likes of Trump and Pompeo, Canada is further squandering whatever credibility she may once have enjoyed as an independent actor on the world stage.
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