Canada Greenlights Extradition Hearing for Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou

Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou arrives at a parole office, in Vancouver, on Dec. 12, 2018. Canada announced on Mar. 1 that the extradition hearing against Meng would proceed. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

TORONTO—Canada has given the go-ahead for a hearing to determine whether Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou should be extradited to the United States.

The Department of Justice Canada officials issued an Authority to Proceed, which formally begins the extradition process in Meng’s case in Canada. The department said in a news release that they are satisfied that the requirements set out by the Extradition Act have been met.