Yeah, the problem for Canada is that we have a long history of cooperation between our law enforcement and US law enforcement. Trudeau said it wasn’t political and he was not consulted on the decision to arrest. That probably sounds like BS to the Chinese government but I’m pretty sure it’s 100% true. There’s probably pretty well defined processes for one of our countries to ask the other to pick up a wanted criminal for them.
I was far less certain that the American desire to arrest her wasn’t politically motivated. But now, even if it wasn’t, Trump has made the entire thing political. And a weird side effect of presidential pardon power is that he can essentially politically interfere with any federal criminal proceeding.
