Canada’s Foreign Ministry has repeatedly summoned China’s ambassador to Canada, Peiwu Cong, to protest accusations against Beijing of using police stations on Canadian soil to repress exiled Chinese dissidents.
«We’ve had several meetings, we’ve called the ambassador on multiple occasions and conveyed our deep concern,» Canada’s director general for Northeast Asia in Global Affairs, Weldon Epp, told a House of Commons committee on China on Tuesday.
Epp said the agency and Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly will hold further meetings with China’s diplomatic envoy to Canada depending on how Beijing responds to the allegations, the CBC reported Thursday.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday backed protesters in China to defend the right to protest in the country amid a wave of protests in several Chinese cities over the Chinese government’s COVID-19 restrictions.
The Canadian Prime Minister’s Executive has decided to toughen its rhetoric against China as part of its new Indo-Pacific strategy after accusing Beijing of «aggressively interfering» in Canada’s electoral processes.
