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“It’s disappointing but not surprising to see the extent to which the Trudeau government will go to secretly support the Communist Party of China,” Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole said of the news.
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“A national disgrace,” said David Mulroney, Canada’s former ambassador to China. “Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy has no room for one of the most courageous, principled, and seriously threatened women on the planet.”
Mulroney added that Canada’s support for the One China policy does not preclude independent organizations from granting honours like this to Tsai.
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“I can understand the frustration, the anxiety, the concern that Canadians right across the country are feeling,” he said. “We will continue to be there to work hand in hand, and respect the provinces as they make the right decisions for their jurisdictions.” Trudeau added that the caseload and trajectory of COVID-19 cases aren’t on the same path across the country. Instead, he said businesses could continue to tap federal supports amid varying restrictions. “This third wave is more serious and we need to hang in there for another few weeks to make sure that we can flatten that curve, [and] drop those numbers down again to give a chance for vaccines to take hold and allow us to get to what will hopefully be a much more normal summer,” he said.
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