It’s Time Ottawa Got Tough on China, Former Ambassador Says

Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who is out on bail and remains under partial house arrest, leaves the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on Jan. 21, 2020. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

OTTAWA—Canada must take a stronger stand when it comes to the Chinese communist regime, says former ambassador to China Guy Saint-Jacques.

His remarks come on day 408 of detention for Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig—imprisoned by China in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou—and the same week that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rejected a potential “prisoner exchange.”