THE TRUTH ABOUT MENG WANZHOU IS UGLY

   Terry Glavin:  Among the many sleights of hand in the prisoner-exchange formulation is the absurd proposition that the United States has failed to honour some sort of gentlemanly obligation to somehow intervene with Xi Jinping on Canada’s behalf in order to extricate Canada from its own self-inflicted Huawei troubles. A decade ago, the Obama administration was warning Canada to stay away from Huawei. We didn’t listen. And now look where we are.

  And why is it that Huawei and Chrétien and Manley and Goldenberg and the rest of the China lobby aren’t proposing that Meng simply call it a day, dismiss her lawyers, and have her chauffeur drive her to the Peace Arch crossing so she can turn herself in, present herself for trial, and fight the charges against her where they were filed?

   A reasonable person would conclude that she won’t because she’s guilty as sin, and she knows it, and Chrétien and Manley and Goldenberg and the rest know it, too.