Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced today that Canada will launch a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
No federal government officials will attend the games. Canadian athletes will still be allowed to compete.
The U.S., U.K. and Australia already have announced they won’t send official delegations to the games — a collective attempt to send a message to China that its human rights abuses have not gone unnoticed.
MPs, senators and civil society groups have been pushing the Trudeau government for months to hold China accountable for its crackdown on democratic rights in Hong Kong and the ongoing abuse of
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