Catharine Tunney · CBC News · Posted: Jan 26, 2019 2:45 PM ET | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
Canadian Ambassador to China John McCallum is shown at the Liberal cabinet meeting in Sherbrooke, Que., on Jan. 16. He has since been fired. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)
John McCallum has been fired as Canada's ambassador to China.
"Last night I asked for and accepted John McCallum's resignation as Canada's Ambassador to China," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement Saturday.
A spokesperson for the prime minister confirmed Trudeau delivered the news to McCallum himself.
The statement didn't offer a reason for the removal, which comes in the middle of a diplomatic crisis with China. It caps off an especially tough week for McCallum after he controversially waded into the extradition request against Meng Wanzhou, an executive with Chinese telecom company Huawei......
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