Global News published this video item, entitled “Michael Kovrig, Michael Spavor return to Canada, Meng Wanzhou lands in China” – below is their description.
Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have landed safely back in Canada after spending more than 1,000 days in detention in China.
The two men arrived in Calgary on Saturday morning and were greeted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the airport.
Trudeau announced the men had been freed on Friday, hours after Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was released from house arrest in Vancouver and allowed to return home to China after securing a deal to drop U.S. charges against her.
Meanwhile, Meng arrived at the airport in Shenzhen, China, her hometown, where a crowd of well-wishers chanted patriotic slogans and held aloft red banners to welcome her return.
Chinese state media welcomed Meng back to the “motherland” on Saturday, but Chinese media kept silent about Kovrig and Spavor.
Meng was arrested in December 2018 in Vancouver after a New York court issued an arrest warrant, saying she tried to cover up attempts by Huawei-linked companies to sell equipment to Iran in breach of U.S. sanctions.
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Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
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