Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre today questioned the federal government on how it will respond to Beijing’s reported crackdown on protests that have been breaking out across the country in response to restrictive COVID-19 measures.
“There’s a wave of protests across China right now, and there are now reports of government crackdowns against those protests,” Poilievre said during question period in the House of Commons on Nov. 28.
Poilievre referenced the Liberal government’s new Indo-Pacific Strategy, unveiled yesterday by Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, who said Canada will be pledging more resources to challenge China’s “increasingly disruptive” presence in the region….