Wed May 10, 2023 – 4:13 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The Communist government of China expelled a Canadian diplomat in a direct retaliatory measure after Canada ejected a Chinese consul who was implicated in a spying scandal involving Conservative MP Michael Chong and his family.
“On May 9, the Canadian government declared a diplomat of the Consulate-General of China in Toronto persona non grata,” the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) Foreign Affairs Ministry said yesterday in a press release.
“China strongly condemns and firmly opposes this and has lodged serious démarches and strong protest to Canada.”
The CCP said that as a “reciprocal countermeasure in reaction to Canada’s unscrupulous move,” it declared “Jennifer Lynn Lalonde, consul of the Consulate General of Canada in Shanghai, persona non grata.”
She has been told to leave China by May 13.
The CCP also said that “China reserves the right to further react.”
The Canadian embassy for Communist China had before issued a veiled threat that the country will “play along” until the “very end” should its representative be expelled.
On Monday, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly issued a statement saying Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei is a persona
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