Michael Spavor

Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne warned on Monday, November 23, 2020, that tough talk about China could hurt efforts to gain the release of two arbitrarily detained Canadians.

The president of a prominent think tank used a high-level U.N. Security Council meeting on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, to appeal for the release of former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, who has been held by Beijing for nearly two years as part of a diplomatic dispute with Canada.