OTTAWA—Michael Spavor is thanking Canadians and the world for their support one week after his 1,020−day ordeal in Chinese prison came to an end. Spavor, along with Michael Kovrig, were released a week ago after the United States dropped its prosecution of Chinese high−tech executive Meng Wanzhou. The two men had been arrested and convicted of spying by China in what is widely seen as retaliation for the RCMP’s Dec. 1, 2018, arrest of Meng at the Vancouver airport on an American extradition warrant. The saga came to an end when the U.S. entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with Meng that resulted in charges against her being dropped and the extradition request withdrawn in a Vancouver court. Meng, who was under house arrest in Vancouver in a luxury mansion, was set free and was on a chartered airliner back to China at the same moment as Kovrig and Spavor …