Trudeau rejects call by Canada's elite to negotiate with China to free “Two Michaels”
During a morning press conference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that his government is working “very hard” to free Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor from Chinese authorities.
The “Two Michaels” have been in custody in December 2019 in a move considered to be retaliation for the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou at the Vancouver International Airport for extradition to the United States.
As reported by CTV,
“It is obvious that the first priority of any government is to protect its citizens,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa on Thursday.
“If countries around the world, including China, realize that by arbitrarily arresting random Canadians, they can get what they want out of Canada politically – well, that makes an awful lot of Canadians who travel around the world vulnerable to that kind of pressure.”
The answer comes in response to an open letter sent to Trudeau advising him to negotiate with China to free their Canadian hostages.
“While I respect the letter,” said Trudeau, “I deeply disagree them.”
According to Global News,
Among the 19 signatories to the letter are former federal justice minister Allan Rock; former foreign affairs ministers Lloyd Axworthy, Lawrence Cannon and André Oullet; past NDP leader Ed Broadbent; and Robert Fowler, a foreign policy advisor to past prime ministers Pierre Trudeau, John Turner and Brian Mulroney.
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