{"id":12719,"date":"2018-12-11T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T03:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12719"},"modified":"2018-12-11T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T03:35:10","slug":"canadian-government-deeply-concerned-as-china-detains-ex-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12719","title":{"rendered":"Canadian government &#8216;deeply concerned&#8217; as China detains ex-diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig has been arrested and detained in China without explanation, the Canadian government\u00a0confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously we are aware of the situation of a Canadian detained in China,&#8221; said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his way into question period Tuesday. &#8220;We have been in direct contact with the Chinese diplomats and representatives. We are engaged on the file, which we take very seriously, and we are providing consular assistance to the family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A written statement from Global Affairs Canada said that because of Canada&#8217;s Privacy Act, no further information would be disclosed about the case of Kovrig,\u00a0who until recently served as a Canadian diplomat in China.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese officials have not given an official\u00a0explanation for Kovrig&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale\u00a0said Canadian officials were &#8220;sparing no effort&#8221; to make sure Kovrig\u00a0is safe and\u00a0appropriately treated, but offered few details on the emerging situation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Canadian diplomatic officials have been in touch with their Chinese counterparts to explain how seriously Canadians view this,&#8221; Goodale said.\u00a0&#8220;Clearly we are deeply concerned and [Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia\u00a0Freeland]\u00a0and her officials will be taking all appropriate action.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig has&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12720,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12719\/revisions\/12720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}