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Canada's Ambassador To China Hopes US Won't Extradite Huawei Exec, Gets Fired (go.com)
First, a Canadian diplomat on Thursday contradicted what he'd said on Wednesday, according to a story shared by hackingbear:
John McCallum, Canada's ambassador in China, appeared to provide legal advice to Meng Wanzhou, who is fighting extradition to the U.S. over fraud allegations. Saying she had a "strong case", McCallum outlined numerous weaknesses of the legal proceedings: political interference from Donald Trump, the extraterritorial nature of the charges and the fact that Canada is not party to American sanctions against Iran.
"I regret that my comments with respect to the legal proceedings of Ms Meng have created confusion. I misspoke," McCallum said in a statement released late on Thursday afternoon. "These comments do not accurately represent my position on the issue. As the government has consistently made clear, there has been no political involvement in this process."
But ABC News reports that the same diplomat then said Friday that it would be "great" for Canada if the U.S. dropped its extradition request, "in what seem like off script remarks again...."
"The Canadian government didn't return multiple messages in response to questions about whether McCallum is speaking for the Canadian government."
UPDATE (1/26/2019): "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has fired Canada's ambassador to China, John McCallum," reports the BBC.
"I regret that my comments with respect to the legal proceedings of Ms Meng have created confusion. I misspoke," McCallum said in a statement released late on Thursday afternoon. "These comments do not accurately represent my position on the issue. As the government has consistently made clear, there has been no political involvement in this process."
But ABC News reports that the same diplomat then said Friday that it would be "great" for Canada if the U.S. dropped its extradition request, "in what seem like off script remarks again...."
"The Canadian government didn't return multiple messages in response to questions about whether McCallum is speaking for the Canadian government."
UPDATE (1/26/2019): "Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has fired Canada's ambassador to China, John McCallum," reports the BBC.
Just because you have more advanced brainwashing methods, doesn't mean you're relevantly different.
China is just better at capitalism than the Trump administration, and the USA is better at dictatorship than China. The grass is always more dystopic on the other side, I guess ...
I feel sorry for him in a way. He is probably a great ambassador, but these diplomats when the spotlight suddenly shines on them sometimes have no idea what to do. He is basically right on all counts -- she does have a strong case, and it would be better for Canada if the US just dropped the issue. He just doesn't know enough to keep his mouth shut while this is going on, because in Canada (unlike in China) this is a legal case, not a political one. That is why the PM is keeping his mouth shut (and why he should to). In the US the president has (as we have seen) his/her own set of powers. In Canada the PMs power ends with the ruling party's will to go along with him/her. They don't have any power unto themselves unless emergency measures are declared.
Since I'm on my soapbox anyway... Before open source was the bomb we had something called "source code licenses". You sign a legal document and you got the full source of the product which you could compile yourself or even make changes to if you needed to. If I were worried about a foreign power spying on my citizens I would require (by law) that providers of communication technology from foreign powers have the source code in their possession, require deployments to be compiled from source, and enact stiff fines for unauthorized surveillance (that could be globally enforced). Yes it could still happen, but just imagine a foreign power like China thinking about the geeks of a foreign nation pouring over one of your pet company's source code. Either they have nothing to hide or they will suddenly not be that interested in selling to you after all and the political BS will stop.
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
Guy who is job? if you mean the patient dude, at least capitalize him.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
That one is.
“One, political involvement by comments from [US President] Donald Trump in her case. Two, there’s an extraterritorial aspect to her case, and three, there’s the issue of Iran sanctions which are involved in her case, and Canada does not sign on to these Iran sanctions. So I think she has some strong arguments that she can make before a judge,” McCallum said.
Sounds like /. is also afraid of publishing stories inconvenient to the American public.
And this ambassador had to retract his words after facing political pressure from Canada’s main opposition party leader for McCallum’s removal. Great for freedom of speech!
Screw the extradition treaties, you can't just bend over and pull the pants down everytime the U.S. waves its cock and wants to throw someone in prison for life to bully other governments into doing what they want.
Canada's Prime Minister asked the ambassador to step down, because of his previous remarks on the case of the Huaweoi executive who is detained and waiting extradition hearings to the USA.
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He was asked to resign: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politi...
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Meng Wanzhou has been arrested and is facing an extradition hearing in a Canadian court. The courts are part of the judiciary. John McCallum was literally the voice of the Canadian government in China. The government can never give its opinion on an individual's ongoing case while it is before the courts. I think after McCallum's first comments it was assumed he would either resign or at least apologize. The fact that he gave another opinion on the case is completely outrageous and shows McCallum to be completely ill suited to be an ambassador or to work in any capacity as part of the government. The Canadian prime minister is going to get grilled on this issue for not having fired McCallum sooner.
Note it doesn't matter if McCallum's statements are true, false, or just his personal opinion. The fact that he is the Canadian Ambassador to China means he can't say those things.
The reason why open source became such a big deal was Microsoft refused to share the source code with China to make sure there were no NSA backdoors. its not China we have to worry about when we are talking about big brother
**Life is too short to be serious**
Extradiditon by nature is a political decision because a nations law do not extend beyond its borders. Every extradition treaty has national interest loophole clauses in it. What it comes down to is whether China can cause enough pain for Canada to believe it is in their interest to invoke the loophole in this case.
**Life is too short to be serious**
His job as Canada's ambassador to China is to keep good relations between China and Canada. He should not give a fuck about Canada's relations with USA unless he is the ambassador to USA. If his comments make this look like the vengeful misuse of the judicial process that it is and it gets USA panties in a bunch - too bad- he needs to calm down his host country over this gross misuse of the judicial process and if he can do so by pointing out the available loopholes good for him.
**Life is too short to be serious**
That was not an extradition case. Extradition by definition is political. Go read the US-Canada treaty. very clearly says the govt can override it in national interest.
**Life is too short to be serious**
"What? You mean I can't just shoot off my mouth, repeatedly, and make life difficult for my elected bosses, who were elected to set policy and not me?"
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I remind you the NDP Beard led all the polls before the last national election and was clearly going to be the next PM but fucked it up with two months of talking about trans issues rather than the economy and security.
Correction, economy and security. Canada likely wouldn't survive as a nation if the NDP became the leaders. Especially with the complaints of what they're doing now at a provincial level.
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