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The Conservative leader will argue that Trudeau has done little to address the canola feud since it erupted in recent months.

Among the steps, Scheer will call on Trudeau to cut Canada’s funding to China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, to which the government has committed $256 million over five years.

The Liberal government has established a working group to address the canola issue, requested to send a delegation of experts to China to examine the complaints, and says it has been exploring options to provide financial support to farmers.

China’s decision to cut off Canadian canola seed shipments is widely viewed as an attempt to apply economic pressure on Canada following the December arrest of senior Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver at the behest of the United States.

In the days following Meng’s arrest, China arrested two Canadian citizens on allegations of engaging in activities that have endangered Chinese national security.

Weeks later, Trudeau fired Canada’s former ambassador to China, John McCallum, for going off script in the government’s efforts to win the release of the two men.