‘They have no right to ask me to be there,’ says Chinese ambassador on possibility of appearance at Canada-China Relations Committee

'One would have thought that if the Chinese government feels that they are in the right in the current downturn in relations [between] Canada and China that the ambassador would welcome an opportunity to explain,' says former Canadian diplomat Charles Burton.

Cong Peiwu says he wants to see more 'positive energy' put into the Special House Committee on Canada-China Relations and have 'more sensible and more rational voices' being heard. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY NEIL MOSS

March 18, 2020

China's top diplomat in Ottawa says Members of Parliament on the Special Canada-China Relations Committee don't have “a right” to ask him to appear before the body. Speaking with The Hill Times at the Chinese embassy on March 12, Cong Peiwu said he wanted to see “more positive energy�...

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