The Tory leader outlined his foreign policy priorities in a major speech in Montreal.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer addresses the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on May 7, 2019.
"I will deal with China with eyes wide open," Scheer told the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations Tuesday in a speech outlining his foreign policy priorities. While Canadians have long looked to China as a way to diversify exports markets and"looked the other way" on the country's human rights abuses, Scheer said, the past year has shown things must change.has proven"illuminating," he said, suggesting the detention of two Canadians and China's ban on Canadian canola shipments were acts of retaliation., we should no longer harbour any illusions about China's attitude towards the rule of law," he said.
Better relations and more economic opportunity with China will only happen if Canada shows strength and resolve, he said.
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