Terry Glavin: China gets nastier, but Trudeau\u0027s Liberals still grovel
It would be better still if the Government of Canada would take these measures as an explicitly open defiance of Article 38, as a gesture of solidarity with the millions of Hongkongers who have so bravely waged their freedom struggle in the cause of what the Trudeau government vainly describes as “Canadian values.
So the job keeps getting put off. A decision on whether to permit Beijing’s “national champion” Huawei to do its dirty work in developing the architecture and infrastructure of fifth-generation digital connectivity in Canada was supposed to be announced before last October’s election. While the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and several other key liberal democracies have all told Huawei with varying degrees of emphasis to go away, Canada still dithers.
Canada has been denied consular access to Kovrig and Spavor in their prison cells since last January, on the spurious excuse of the COVID-19 situation.
Ottawa has not issued exit orders to a single Chinese diplomat in Canada, even though Amnesty International and more than a dozen human rights and pro-democracy groups have documented an elaborate embassy-sanctioned campaign of harassment, including death threats, aimed at intimidating Chinese expatriates in Canada. Ottawa has ignored appeals for a central law-enforcement unit to track these indecencies.
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