Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is not surprised to see that China‘s ambassador directly linked the country’s arbitrary detention of two Canadians with the legal arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in a recent interview with Global News.
During a daily media briefing at Rideau Cottage, Trudeau was asked by a Global News journalist about a recent interview on The West Block in which Chinese ambassador Cong Peiwu denied that the country’s detention of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor is a case of hostage taking.
Cong then proceeded to directly raise the Meng case. “We have seen Chinese officials linking those two cases from the very beginning,” Trudeau said when asked about that direct linkage. “Canada has an independent judicial system