{"id":3081,"date":"2018-12-12T17:05:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T00:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2018-12-12T17:05:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T00:05:15","slug":"i-think-this-lets-canada-off-the-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2018\/12\/12\/i-think-this-lets-canada-off-the-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think This Lets CANADA Off the Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s use of the case against Meng Wanzhou as a bargaining chip (aka hostage-taking or blackmail) in trade negotiations with China is a clear indication that the extradition request was not made in good faith based on the belief that there was a clear obligatorily enforceable\u00a0 legal case against Ms Meng. Thus Canada is under no moral obligation (and I would hope is under no legal obligation) to deliver her.\u00a0 I deeply hope that a Canadian court reaches the same conclusion and orders her release on those grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-huawei-tech-exclusive\/exclusive-trump-says-he-could-intervene-in-u-s-case-against-huawei-cfo-idUSKBN1OA2PQ?ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__121218\">Exclusive: Trump says he could intervene in U.S. case against Huawei CFO | Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s use of the case against Meng Wanzhou as a bargaining chip (aka hostage-taking or blackmail) in trade negotiations with China is a clear indication that the extradition request was not made in good faith based on the belief &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2018\/12\/12\/i-think-this-lets-canada-off-the-hook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}