Canada鈥檚 foreign affairs minister says Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor are doing well.
鈥淭hey鈥檙e doing well, of course it has been very difficult for them,鈥� Mélanie Joly told CTV鈥檚 Power Play on Wednesday. 鈥淵ou and I and people watching us don鈥檛 necessarily truly understand what they鈥檝e gone through.鈥�
Joly told Evan Solomon she met with Kovrig and Spavor earlier Wednesday.
Kovrig and Spavor returned to Canada in September after being detained in China in 2018. Their detentions were widely seen as retaliation for Canada鈥檚 arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
Joly also told Power Play she is working on an Indo-Pacific strategy.
鈥淭here鈥檚 a growing influence of China in the Indo-Pacific and also the Arctic. That will be my priority for sure,鈥� Joly said.
Joly talks about her meeting with Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in the video at the top of this article.
