{"id":3631,"date":"2020-12-11T01:17:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T08:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2020-12-11T01:17:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T08:17:35","slug":"canadians-urging-meng-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2020\/12\/11\/canadians-urging-meng-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians Urging Meng Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/live\/?v=1064725397308723&amp;ref=watch_permalink\">(20+) Live | Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This happened a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists included Niki Ashton (didn&#8217;t show up but submitted a statement of support), Paul Manley, . . .and my fellow student from half a century ago John Philpot.<\/p>\n<p>To my mind John McCallum was right, back when this started (in the comments that got him fired) and furthermore, regardless of the strength of its legal implications, Trump&#8217;s blathering about using Meng as a bargaining chip should have been taken as justification for a use of the Ministerial prerogative to refuse the extradition request. But at this stage it&#8217;s too late for that, and the gov&#8217;t is irreversibly committed to letting the legal arguments play out. Furthermore I am not convinced that release of Meng would automatically guarantee that of the Michaels. It depends on how explicitly the Chinese would want such a reciprocal release to be seen as an indication that the arrests were just a taking of hostages for exchange purposes &#8211; in contradiction to their repeated loud denials of exactly that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: (20+) Live | Facebook This happened a couple of weeks ago. Panelists included Niki Ashton (didn&#8217;t show up but submitted a statement of support), Paul Manley, . . .and my fellow student from half a century ago John Philpot. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2020\/12\/11\/canadians-urging-meng-release\/\">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-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","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=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/3632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}