Terry Glavin: We listened instead to Jean Chrétien and the pro-PRC Liberal old guard. Remember that if—or when—Xi Jinping takes revenge over the Meng Wanzhou case.
McCallum was all in for Meng and Huawei—they had a case, you know, he kept insisting. The threshold of double criminality was not met, because Canada’s Iran sanctions were over by the time the evidence was piling up that Meng was defrauding banks and arranging bank transfers in such a way as to hide Huawei’s dealings in Iran and evade the American sanctions on the Iranian regime.
And so what was the reason that Xi Jinping thought that he could take a couple of hostages and hey presto, Meng Wanzhou would be on a plane back to her palace in Beijing, instead of slumming it in her Shaughnessy mansion in Vancouver, awaiting trial all this time? What made Xi think that strong-arming Canada and having Kovrig and Spavor picked up and tossed into a dungeon would be enough to do the...
It was that Xi, too, had been listening to the likes of Jean Chrétien and Martin Cauchon, and to John Manley and John McCallum and the rest. Xi had been given every impression that Trudeau’s Liberals would act on their customary instincts to capitulate. And there is still an opportunity for the Trudeau government to get away with it, Canada’s so-far-unsullied extradition treaty with the United States be damned.
For all anybody knows, China will be doing everything it can to make life miserable for Canada and for Canadians for as long as this case goes on, and probably until well after it’s all over. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay for ignoring all those warnings, for thinking we were clever, and for taking the guidance and counsel of Jean Chrétien and the rest.
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