09-24-2021, 08:45 AM
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Meng Wanzhou expected to plead guilty today
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The Huawei Technologies chief financial officer will pay a fine as part of a plea deal, said the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly.
Her court appearance was first reported by Reuters.
Sources said if the New York court accepts the deal, Canadian Crown attorneys will appear in a Vancouver court later today to stay extradition proceedings against Meng. She could be free of house arrest as early as today.
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I would expect to see the two Canadians released in the next few days. Great news for them and their families obviously.
What a boondoggle this has all been.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canad...&ocid=msedgntp
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09-24-2021, 08:56 AM
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Norm!
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Well I hope so, they've been sitting in a rotten Chinese Prison for nearly 4 years.
If she pleads guilty and pays a fine, that's great but Canada needs to announce that they're following the rest of our allies in banning the Huawei from 5 G and any other key research projects in universities etc.
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09-24-2021, 08:56 AM
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I presume most of the court costs will be born by Canadian taxpayers?
Thanks, best friend America.
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09-24-2021, 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by transplant99
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I hope they are released shortly but I fear they won’t so that China can preserve the facade that they are not linked. A few months from now they quietly are let go.
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09-24-2021, 09:55 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by Canada 02
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Well... F*** that.
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09-24-2021, 10:05 AM
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Location: Alberta
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Wow, wtf is that.
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09-24-2021, 10:07 AM
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Norm!
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Why did anyone expect any other result. Its up to Canada to negotiate their release. Biden isn't going to give a crap about the Canadian effects.
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09-24-2021, 10:09 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Cowtown
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Trudeau is still gonna find a way to give her 10 million dollars
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09-24-2021, 10:35 AM
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Christ. Well done, Trudeau government. Thanks a lot, America. Bunch of ####ing clowns.
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09-24-2021, 10:37 AM
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Location: Calgary
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Lets see how it plays out over the coming weeks.
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09-24-2021, 11:01 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: east van
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Originally Posted by edslunch
I hope they are released shortly but I fear they won’t so that China can preserve the facade that they are not linked. A few months from now they quietly are let go.
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this
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09-24-2021, 11:07 AM
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by edslunch
I hope they are released shortly but I fear they won’t so that China can preserve the facade that they are not linked. A few months from now they quietly are let go.
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####ing gross.
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09-24-2021, 11:13 AM
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Wouldn't China want the world to know they are linked? They'll deny it explicitly, but by releasing them it makes it very apparent to everyone not to F with their citizens.
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09-24-2021, 11:36 AM
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In Your MCP
Join Date: Apr 2004
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What a giant waste of time. Thanks USA.
At least now I can resume my quarterly excursions to China without fear of getting tossed in the clink (again).
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09-24-2021, 11:43 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Will Huawei still sponsor HNIC? I always thought that was kind of awkward.
I don't know much about the Canadians they have hostage, but are we sure that they are completely clean? Just asking, because I really don't know. I think at least one of them was publicly a sympathizer of North Korea which seems like a red flag.
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09-24-2021, 11:58 AM
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trudeau was right - harper needed to lob more than tomatoes to get the job done.....
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09-24-2021, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I don't know much about the Canadians they have hostage, but are we sure that they are completely clean? Just asking, because I really don't know. I think at least one of them was publicly a sympathizer of North Korea which seems like a red flag.
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It was more than that; Spavor had ties to Kim Jong-un and other North Korean officials and lived in North Korea at one point. This article is from before he was even arrested:
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While only a handful of Westerners can say they are welcomed into North Korea regularly, Michael Spavor appears to move around the restrictive country freely.
Spavor, a Canadian national who runs a nonprofit that offers trips to North Korea, even says he's friendly with high-level members of the North Korean government, including the country's leader, Kim Jong Un.
While many foreign media outlets were barred from North Korea's military parade on Thursday, Spavor was somehow front and center, streaming an unfiltered view of the tanks and missiles that rolled by.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/mich...jong-un-2018-2
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And Mr Spavor's close ties to North Korea, which is an ally of China, only adds to the intrigue surrounding this growing diplomatic feud.
He runs an organisation called the Paektu Cultural Exchange, which promotes tourism and investment into North Korea.
He facilitated the well-publicised and unlikely friendship between Mr Kim and the American basketball star Dennis Rodman.
Mr Spavor arranged for the pair to meet in 2013, describing the visit as a "blast".
"That was the most amazing experience I've had in my life... we hung out for three days," he told Reuters news agency last year.
Images taken at the time, and shared on social media, show Mr Spavor drinking long island iced teas with Mr Kim after going jet-skiing near the port city of Wonsan.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46552644
That doesn't mean China's charges aren't totally trumped up, but the idea that this was just some random Canadian in China getting arrested isn't accurate either.
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09-24-2021, 01:01 PM
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First Line Centre
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No Michaels released, SNC fraud, Tabbara released with no jail time or record, all within days of the election.
All the skeletons are finally being pushed through the closet and exploding on us at the same time, what else will the next weeks bring?
Oh and let's give a big middle finger to our 'friends' in the US, how the heck are they friends?
Last edited by Firebot; 09-24-2021 at 01:04 PM.
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09-24-2021, 01:10 PM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by opendoor
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I knew Michael Spavor back at the UofC in the early 2000s. He was just a guy that was really into Korea and language studies and was always hanging out with foreign exchange students...But he was a genuine nice guy that was just interested in foreign cultures at the time.
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