Freeland pressed on timeline of Huawei CFO detainment, Canadian arrests

In a testy exchange with Conservative MP Erin O’Toole, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland assured a House of Commons foreign-affairs committee that she wants to talk to China’s foreign minister about the two detained Canadians China has accused of undermining its national security, who the government believe are being held in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of high-tech executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on an extradition warrant from the United States.

• Canadian authorities deny searching phone of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou