Media in China are promoting Liberal MP Michael Ma’s skepticism about the existence of forced labour in China following an exchange with a China expert at a parliamentary committee meeting this week.
Ma, a former Conservative MP who crossed the floor to join the Liberals in December, asked China expert and former senior public servant Margaret McCuaig-Johnston a series of rapid-fire questions that suggested skepticism about China’s forced labour practices during a House of Commons industry committee meeting on March 26.
He later refused to say there is forced labour in China in an exchange with a reporter, instead saying that there is forced labour “all over the world.”…