Dominic Barton to be among first to testify before committee tasked with investigating Canada-China relations

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Dominic Barton to be among first to testify before committee tasked with investigating Canada-China relations GlobePolitics

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Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor were both detained by Chinese authorities in December, 2018, in apparent retaliation for the government’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition warrant. Former Canadian diplomat Gordon Houlden said it’s rare for Parliament to create a committee to examine relations with one country. He said it reflects the degree to which the detentions of Mr. Kovrig and Mr. Spavor and Ms. Wanzhou have dominated public debate and hurt Canadian goodwill toward China.

The motion that created the committee authorized it to order Mr. Barton, as well as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne and Public Safety Minister Bill Blair to appear as witnesses “from time to time as the committee sees fit.”

 

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