It’s very difficult if not impossible to wrap my head around all the specifics of the case involving Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. Frankly, a big part of me wishes the B.C. Supreme Court had ruled in her favour Wednesday and let her get on with her life. Would that have meant the release of the two Canadians that have been held in custody in China, supposedly in retaliation for Meng’s arrest in 2018? We don’t know that for sure but it seems a good possibility. Meng was passing through Vancouver and about to board an airplane out of Canada when arrested because we were asked to do so by the United States where there was a warrant out for her to stand trial in the U.S. on charges that she violated American sanctions against Iran. Since her apprehension, Meng has been under house arrest at one or the other of her two Vancouver residences. In doing the U.S. a favour Canada aroused the ire of China and now the situation is going to drag on as Meng must remain in this country and continue her legal battle against being extradited to the U.S. This issue had become a political hot potato and here we are, caught between China and the U.S. in a sticky situation we shouldn’t be in. None of this would have even happened if our law enforcement people hadn’t been so quick to rush to the airport in Vancouver back on December 1st, 2018 after being alerted by U.S. authorities that she was in transit through the city and would we please be so kind as to pop over and arrest her. Why did we have to “jump to the pump” so quickly? Vancouver traffic is horrendous. If we’d only taken just a wee bit more time to get there, Meng would have been gone and this mess would never have happened.

That’s Coffeetalk. I’m Vic Dubois.