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Not true. USMCA was signed before the arrest. Approx USMCA was finalized on Nov 30 (negotiated in the months before that. Meng was arrested on Dec 1).

Citations: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/30/672150010/usmca-trump-signs-n...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/05/tech/huawei-cfo-arrested-cana...

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Can't argue with that. Thanks for correcting my fuzzy memory! In the same vein, this still removes the "we can always take our business over there" card that our PM was waving around.

It seems extremely unlikely that China would refuse to do business with Canada over one persons arrest. The way they need their economy to continue growing they can't turn down a major source of revenue like Canada.

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