Commentary This is the second in a series on how Canada can prudently decouple from China. Most Canadians are familiar with the nightmares endured by Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, the two Michaels imprisoned for almost three years because they were unlucky enough to be in China when Canada arrested Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver. Fewer Canadians are familiar with the case of Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian whose 15-year drug-related jail sentence was upped to death shortly after Meng’s arrest. Almost no Canadians are familiar with the cases of some 115 Canadians who remain in Chinese jails. Often they are cut off from Canada’s consular services and even their families; often they have been placed in custody for arbitrary reasons; always they have been denied a fair trial. Many languish in prison without even getting to court, where sentences can be handed down in a matter of minutes, without judges so much as allowing …
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