Here is an alternative Invidious link: https://inv.thepixora.com/watch?v=hLoPJQR0EfU (8 min video)
Michael Kovrig, the Canadian diplomat who spent over 1,000 days in a Chinese prison, says that while stabilizing relations with China is necessary, the deal is ‘asymmetric, and it’s China that holds the balance and the leverage.’
Michael Kovrig, when he was arrested by the Chinese, was working for all intenents and purposes under the auspices of the American State Department, for American (not Canadian) interests. One might suggest that he had sold out to America. I suggest that he was more American than Canadian in his ‘politics’. It still seems that he is spouting American State Department propaganda when it comes to his comments on Canada’s relationship with China.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/us-administration-treating-spavor-kovrig-cases-as-if-they-were-americans-hillman/
Canada needs a foreign policy stance that reflects Canada’s interests, not the American State Department.