Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marco Mendicino joins Mercedes Stephenson on The West Block to talk immigration, China and COVID-19. He says the government has taken real lessons from the first wave of COVID-19 and the new immigration plan will build on that progress. On China, he says the government will continue to take “strong and principled” stands as necessary.
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