Canada’s main opposition, the Conservative Party, is calling on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to directly phone Chinese leader Xi Jinping and ask detained Canadians to be released.
“It troubles me—and I know the Canadian families that I have spoken to that have concerns about family members working in China—that the prime minister appears ready to call the leadership in the United States, leadership in Japan but won’t pick up the phone to call the Chinese leadership,” Erin O’Toole, a member of the Canadian Parliament and Conservative shadow minister for foreign affairs, said at a press conference in Ottawa.
