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Originally Posted by Firebot
This means the Michaels were actual spies, what I am gathering from this article, and they weren't just detained in a vacuum?
Definitely puts the whole thing in perspective.
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Probably not spies, per se. And if Spavor is telling the truth, he wasn't even an intelligence asset. But it sounds like Kovrig was probably used to collect intelligence in China. And China likely knew this, but only acted when they wanted some leverage.
And if the story is true, it does make the whole politicization of it kind of gross, given that a lot of MPs with the right security clearance likely knew what was really going on. Sort of like when Pierre Trudeau kept hammering the Clark government to do more to help the US in Iran, even though he knew full well that American diplomats were being sheltered and were in the process of being extricated with Canada's help.