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Meng denies the allegations, which have not been tested in court, and her legal team says the charges are politically motivated by the Trump administration.

China’s government says there’s no connection between Canada’s detention of Meng and China’s of Spavor and Kovrig. But there comes a point where good judgment and common sense need to be applied in how we view these issues.

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Canada, a democracy, is following the rule of law by holding an extradition hearing on whether Meng should be sent to the U.S.

China, a dictatorship, has repeatedly tried to bully us into ignoring due process by freeing Meng, who is under house arrest in Vancouver, through everything from the Spavor and Kovrig imprisonments, to launching a trade war against us.

While China and Huawei deny any wrongdoing, coming to these logical conclusions has nothing to do with racism against the people of China, or Canadians of Chinese origin, or Huawei’s Canadian employees.

It has to do with the government of China’s deserved reputation — despite its denials of wrongdoing — as a global bad actor when it comes to everything from spying, industrial espionage and intellectual property theft, to say nothing of contributing to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2003 SARS outbreak because of its initial obsession with secrecy.

How many more warnings does the Trudeau government need from Canadian security experts and our international allies about their security concerns?