OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to answer China’s ban on Canadian canola shipments by pulling hundreds of millions of dollars Ottawa has committed to Beijing’s multilateral development bank. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer will call on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to cut Canada’s funding to China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, to which the government has committed $256 million over five years. “By doing nothing, this policy of appeasement that Justin Trudeau has pursued with the government in China has clearly not worked,” Scheer said in Ottawa. Article Continued BelowIn the days following Meng’s arrest, China arrested two Canadian citizens on allegations of engaging in activities that have endangered Chinese national security. Article Continued BelowScheer tried to cast the canola fight as just one example of the Liberals’ failures on the foreign-policy front.

Source: thestar April 29, 2019 13:07 UTC