(MENAFN) Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada has formally asked China to spare the life of a Canadian man facing a death sentence.
Freeland also mentioned a long list of allies that the country has pursued in its efforts to free two other Canadians imprisoned last month after Canada arrested a Chinese executive at the request of the United States.
Her remarks came after China expressed "strong dissatisfaction" with Canadian Prime Minister's criticism of a death sentence handed down to a previously-arrested third Canadian.
Monday's death sentence by a Chinese court on Canadian Robert Schellenberg for allegedly conspiring to smuggle 222kg of methamphetamines from China to Australia in 2014 has become the latest strain on ties.
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