The Chinese ambassador’s warning to Canada not to send parliamentarians to Taiwan or Canadian navy ships to the Taiwan Strait is not sitting well with some MPs across party lines.
Tory, Liberal, and Bloc Québécois MPs reacted in recent days to comments made by China’s ambassador to Canada, Wang Di, in an interview with the Globe and Mail in late April.
Wang said it will be “hurtful” to Canada-China ties if Canadian parliamentarians conduct “any official engagement” with Taiwan. He added that sending navy ships through the Taiwan Strait is “harassment, and even provocation.”
Conservative MP Michael Chong, who serves as his party’s foreign affairs critic, said Prime Minister Mark Carney “needs to make clear that these comments are unacceptable.”…