More than two-and-a-half years after Meng Wanzhou first stepped into a Canadian courtroom, legal arguments at the Huawei executive’s marathon extradition hearing concluded Wednesday.

A final decision on whether to render Meng to the United States to face fraud charges now rests with B.C. Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes, who isn’t expected to deliver a verdict for months.

The hotly contested legal battle has seen the case picked apart in minute detail by Meng’s team of prominent defence lawyers and Crown prosecutors led by the Justice Department’s chief counsel, Robert Frater.

True to form, the arguments concluded with a pithy Crown response