Sad there are Conservatives either venal or stupid enough to tolerate this jumble of self-contradiction, evasion & deception. Huawei itself says most of the work Charest did for them was to help in the effort to get Huawei through national security roadblocks into 5G. Thread:
https://twitter.com/JeanCharest_/status/1505222505132347392
Charest says it's only now that he wants to be Conservative leader and PM that he says Huawei's 5G presence would be "a threat to national security." Says that working for Huawei to get it into 5G was somehow magically *not* working against Canada's national security interests.
"There's no lawyer who comments on the work they did for one or another client." A law degree does *not* entitle anyone who wants to be Prime Minister to deceive, mislead, or hide what they've been up to. Charest did not "work to help free the two Michaels and bring them home."
He worked for Huawei on 5G strategy, *and* as legal strategist for Huawei heiress & CFO Meng Wanzhou. The Mikes were abducted & imprisoned in Xi Jinping's efforts to spring Meng Wanzhou. Charest was hired to help Beijing accomplish that.
"I never shied away from criticizing the government of China in the last few years no matter what I was doing & I've done it publicly." That's a falsehood. Not only did he shy away from it, he served as a Huawei propaganda/disinfo megaphone for the government of China. Publicly.
What Jean Charest doesn't want you to know, all laid out here: therealstory.substack.com/p/welcome-to-j…
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