Conservative Party leadership candidate Jean Charest says he is “very proud” of his work advising Chinese telecom giant Huawei on the Meng Wanzhou extradition case. “What we did in Huawei, I’m very proud with what we did in helping to sort out the situation of Ms. Meng Wanzhou,” the former Quebec premier told reporters at an event in Calgary on March 10 to launch his bid for Tory leadership. Meng was arrested in late 2018 in Vancouver at the request of the United States on fraud charges related to the violation of U.S. sanctions on Iran. Following her arrest, Canadian citizens Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were arbitrarily detained in Chinese prisons for over 1,000 days in what is widely viewed as retaliation by Beijing. “I worked with the family of Michael Kovrig so that we could free the two Michaels. We worked with them very very closely throughout the whole …