After 34 months in Canadian custody, Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou pleads not guilty in a US court to all the stuff they had the Canadians arrest her for.
The Americans drop all charges, on condition she promises not to talk about any of the stuff she just pleaded not guilty to.
Case closed!
Wang dang, sweet… justice?
WTF just happened here?
Almost three years ago, Canadian authorities nabbed Meng, per US instructions, as she was on her way to Mexico.
The Americans were pissed with Meng because her Daddy’s company, the Chinese tech giant Huawei, was playing fast and loose with America’s unilateral, and based on nothing in international law, sanctions against trade with Iran.
At the time America’s extradition request came in, we could have showed a little spine and asked President Trump on what grounds we were obliged to honour unilateral extralegal sanctions on Iran. Instead, PM Trudeau, seeking to suck up to Mafia Don behind the scenes while pretending to be anti-Trump in front of the cameras, jumped at the chance to gain a few brownie points in Washington.
A few days after we snatched Meng, China snatched a couple of Canadians. These were not random Canadian tourists. They weren’t necessarily “spies” either, but who’s to say that China’s justification for nabbing The Two Michaels were any dodgier than our justification for the arrest of Wanzhou?
The Two Michaels have become a cause celebre in Canada. Their detention has spawned a thousand anti-China op-eds in our legacy media. The Globe and Mail has been counting their days in captivity on its front page - today was 1019.
Hey, no matter how you slice it, Meng’s been incarcerated longer. We acted. They reacted.
Yes, The Two Michaels Drama was instigated by Canada, not China.
Having had 1019 days in which to acknowledge a serious mistake, free Meng, and get The Two Michaels home, the Trudeau government has done absolutely nothing. We don’t want to piss off Biden either.
So today Washington is going to free Meng, and by extension, The Two Michaels.
Where does that leave Canada as an “independent” nation?
Puerto Rico has more independence from Washington than Ottawa does!
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