Meng's lawyers claim the RCMP and CBSA deliberately denied Meng rights guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in order to assist U.S. authorities in a covert plan to investigate the telecommunications executive. "And that way she'd have her rights: charter rights." 's — and Canada's — most prominent lawyers, who assured the RCMP officer at one point that he was not asking "a trick question." The RCMP officer who arrested Meng at Vancouver International Airport, Const. Meng's lawyers have accused the RCMP and CBSA of conspiring to pass technical information from Meng's electronic devices to the FBI in violation of the Extradition Act.

Source: CBC News October 28, 2020 00:56 UTC