Canada’s position as helpless spectators in China dispute was avoidable

As soon as the two Michaels had been detained, the prime minister should have dispatched a special envoy to China to repair the relationship before it deteriorated further.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured in this 2017 photo, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. Canada is caught in the middle of a power struggle between the U.S. and China. Photograph by Adam Scotti, courtesy of the Prime Minister's office

Opinion

BY JEREMY PALTIEL

January 29, 2019

Amid the righteous indignation that Canadians have expressed over the detentions of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor and the death sentence hanging over the head of Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, Canadians should spare some of their indignation for their own government. ...

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