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Federal leaders were united Wednesday in calling for the release of two Canadians detained by China after one was sentenced to 11 years in prison in a case that has put them - and Canada - at the centre of a bitter battle between China and the United States.
Entrepreneur Michael Spavor was detained in what critics labeled “hostage politics” after Huawei's Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver.
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau says Canada will continue to fight for the release of Michael Spavor after a Chinese court sentenced him to 11 years in prison. Garneau in a news conference this morning condemned the prison sentence, which followed a closed-door trial in March that Garneau says did not meet the […]
Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau said today that the 11-year sentence a Chinese court gave Michael Spavor — one of two Canadians detained in China in what are widely seen as acts of retaliation in response to the arrest of a Chinese tech executive — was the result of a "sham trial."
The shocking part isn’t Spavor’s conviction, it’s that the sentence wasn’t harsher