Canada's Talking Tough Is an Embarrassing Display of Weakness

Whatever happened to "speak softly and carry a big stick"? In the last election campaign only Yves-François Blanchet, leader of the Bloc Québécois, dared to say the obvious that in arresting Meng, Canada was trying to display muscles it did not have. Blanchet's daring proves that it takes a politician with nothing to lose to speak the obvious truth. In the ongoing US-China fisticuffs, Canada is playing the role of the Milquetoast sidekick whose tremulous tough talk only emphasizes his weakness. Canada's only legal course of action is the one it refuses to acknowledge According to the Wall Street Journal, US Justice has been arranging to offer Huawei and Meng a deferred prosecution agreement . Meng herself has balked at the deferral requirement that she plead guilty before returning to China. Senator Yuen Pau Woo, who has for years worked back-channel diplomacy with China on Canada's behalf, has warned that if we leave it to the US to release Meng, we will