“We know very well that (these) Russian diplomats are sharing disinformation. It\u0027s a problem.\u0022
“I’m just not convinced that the symbolic gesture of expelling is worth the cost of losing our diplomats in Moscow,” he said Wednesday morning before heading to the Liberal caucus meeting.
“Canadian diplomats in Russia are doing extremely important work to know what is happening in Russia, to create relations at a time of crisis and war,” Trudeau said.“We know very well that Russian diplomats are sharing disinformation. It’s a problem.” Trudeau noted that the size of the Canadian team in Moscow had already shrunk since the annexation of Crimea.
“I think the images we’ve seen lately are absolutely abominable. Nobody can accept that, and we have to toughen it up even more . . . through the expulsion of the propagandists of the Putin regime in Canada,” he said.
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