Calls Mount, Frustration Grows Over Trudeau’s Promise to Help Hong Kong

Pro-democracy lawmakers Lam Cheuk-ting (L) and Andrew Wan Siu-kin (R) are accompanied with two victims who were injured in the Yuen Long subway attack at the subway station in Hong Kong, on July 21, 2020. The Canadian Press/AP/Kin Cheung

OTTAWA—The federal Liberal government is facing increasingly frustrated and worried calls to help people leave Hong Kong for Canada as China continues to crack down on pro-democracy activists in the former British colony.

The exasperation follows Ottawa’s suspension of an extradition treaty with Hong Kong in early July after Beijing passed a national security law for the territory.