Canada on Monday expelled Toronto-based Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei after an intelligence report accused him of trying to target a Canadian lawmaker who criticized China’s treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority.
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie said on Monday, “We will not tolerate foreign interference of any kind.”
The expulsion escalates already strained Sino-Canadian relations and is likely to prompt China, Canada’s second largest trading partner, to respond.
China’s embassy in Ottawa said it condemned the evictions, and that it formally protested the government’s move.
“China will retaliate firmly,” an embassy spokesman said in a statement posted on its website.
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