Former prime minister Jean Chrétien says the government should have moved earlier to resolve the issue of the detainment of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
“We lost three years. That is a problem, they stayed in jail for three years. So, I thought at the beginning that they should have moved earlier,” Chrétien said in an interview airing on Rosemary Barton Live on Sunday.
The former Liberal prime minister, who led Canada from 1993 to 2003, told CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton he’d always had a “special relationship” with China. He noted that he had been called by contacts in China about the issue and spoken
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