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Pew said that if Canada cares about some 300,000 Canadian citizens in Hong Kong and the Canadian companies doing business there, they should support efforts made in what he called fighting violent crime.
Trudeau said Canada will advocate strongly and clearly for human rights, whether it relates to the situation Uighurs are facing, or whether it is the deeply troubling situation in Hong Kong.
And Trudeau added that Canada supports its allies around the world, and the United States, Australia, Great Britain, European countries and several other countries share Canada’s concerns.
The leader of the opposition Conservative Party of Canada, Erin O’Toole, said the Chinese ambassador should either apologize or be expelled from Canada.
O’Toole added: “The Chinese ambassador decided to engage in aggressive rhetoric that was inappropriate for his work. To be clear, this was a threat to 300,000 Canadians in Hong Kong.”
O’Toole called on the Canadian government to quickly determine a path for political refugees to reach Canada from Hong Kong and impose sanctions on Chinese officials due to Hong Kong’s national security law.
And protests escalated in Hong Kong against Chinese intervention last year, and Beijing responded to their opposition by imposing a new national security law that took effect on June 30.
The law prohibits subversive, separatist and terrorist activity and collusion with foreign powers to interfere in Hong Kong’s internal affairs, and the United States, Britain and Canada accuse China of violating freedoms in the city.
Trudeau also said that China is engaging in coercive diplomacy by jailing two Canadian men in retaliation for the arrest of the Huawei executive based on a US extradition order.
And in December 2018, China jailed two Canadians, Michael Coffrig and Michael Spavor, and accused them of undermining the country’s national security.
