Commentary The Chinese Communist Party has demonstrated beyond doubt how ruthless it truly is and the lengths it is willing to go to in order to bend countries like Canada to its will. On Aug. 10, a court in Liaoning Province rejected the appeal of a death sentence for Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian citizen who has been held in China on drug charges since November 2014. Clearly, Schellenberg was never going to get a fair trial and was always going to be used by the CCP as leverage over Ottawa in a political dispute, as has been the case with Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. There is speculation that Spavor’s sentencing is also set to happen any day now, and unfortunately there is little hope of a favourable verdict. After a year and a half of getting a taste of what the regime is truly capable of, with its brazen …