Bounty for exiled Chinese dissidents intensifies calls for McLachlin to resign from Hong Kong court via nationalpost
“Beverley McLachlin is basically supporting a farce by Hong Kong,” said Cheuk Kwan, co-chair of the Toronto Association for Democracy in China “There’s no other way to describe this, it’s like the Wild West.”Recommended from EditorialBut in an interview published on YouTube earlier this year, McLachlin argued that the Hong Kong Final Court of Appeal is “independent” and that she was “sticking with it” because it was “the principled thing to do.
“We always find that explanation incredible,” Kwan said. “She basically doesn’t get assigned to any important security law cases. She’s been relegated to some commercial cases which are of no importance.” But McLachlin stayed on the court, arguing that her presence was necessary to continue fighting for civil rights and Hong Kong’s democratic system from within the region’s judicial system.
, a newspaper owned by the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department, argued that critics condemning Hong Kong’s judiciary “should be condemned,” namely because of the presence of “a former chief justice of Canada.”Article content
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