Chinese courts just dropped a pair of global headline-grabbing decisions that bring the bad blood in the Canada-China relationship to the center of the 2021 federal election campaign
"I can't go into further details, but those intense discussions continue," said Garneau, who later declined to offer more on whether the talks have involved the possible return of Meng to China.Veteran Liberal MP John McKay said the two Michaels’ situations stifle Ottawa’s freedom to act when it comes to the diplomatic and security concerns related to China.
McKay said Canada’s foreign policy has been summed up like this: Don’t get too far ahead of the Americans and don’t get too far behind. “There's always this talk as if Canada determines its own foreign policy by itself and we don’t,” the insider said. “We like to say that we’re soft power or that we're a midsized country — we’re not even really a midsized country.”
“They have more levers,” said Saint-Jacques, who was Kovrig’s boss at the Canadian embassy in Beijing. “On our side, there’s not much that we can do.”
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