U.S. putting the Canada-China relationship through the wringer

Is the extradition request simply a cynical card that the Trump administration is playing as part of its negotiation of a new trade deal with China?

On a number of occasions now, U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured May 5, 2018, has suggested the extradition request is political decision to help get a deal with China and that the U.S. could drop it.Photograph courtesy White House photographer by Andrea Hanks

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

March 18, 2019

TORONTO—With one justice minister felled by an internal government dispute on whether to proceed with a criminal trial for SNC-Lavalin, another justice minister, sometime in the next year—or perhaps longer—could face a similarly divisive political decision, but with much more costly implicatio...

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