15-01-2019 15:00 via ottawacitizen.com

Boswell: What would Scheer do about execution of Canadians abroad?

The death sentence imposed this week on a Canadian man in China — widely viewed as part of Beijing’s retaliation for Canada’s recent arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou — is testing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political and diplomatic mettle at a time when relations with the Asian superpower are deeply strained.
But a Chinese court’s ruling that convicted drug-smuggler Robert Schellenberg should be executed for his alleged crime also poses a challenge
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