Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau said Thursday, on the 500th day of China's controversial detention of two Canadians, that consular visits had been blocked due to a
Coronavirus lockdown of prisons.
"We have been working extremely diligently on the issue of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who have been detained for 500 days in
China," Trudeau told a daily briefing.
Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, speaking during a video event hosted by the Montreal International Relations Council (CORIM), described the detention as "500 days too many."