I agree with all of that, but Trump basically threw a huge wrench into that thinking by retroactively making the arrest a political one. If the US wants Meng Wanzhou for committing crimes, then Canada should act lawfully. If they want her as a bargaining chip in a trade war then we shouldn’t participate in their game, but the only way we could do that is if we straight up said that the US was being a bad actor, and Canada is ill-situated to do that. China, on the other hand, has all the ammunition they need to say that we are participating in political arrests and imprisonment.
All Trump had to so was talk about his electoral college victory or how big his dick is. He’s rather talk about that stuff anyway. I’m just lamenting his uncanny ability to say exactly the worst possible thing.
