Canada won’t tolerate foreign interference by China, says Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly at G20 summit

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly told her Chinese counterpart Qin Gang in a“direct, firm, and unequivocal” manner that Canada would not tolerate any Chinese interference in its internal matters at the sidelines of the New Delhi G20 Summit, according to a statement by the Foreign Affairs Minister on Friday.

“Canada will never tolerate any form of foreign interference in our democracy and internal affairs by China…“We will never accept any breach of our territorial integrity and sovereignty…We will never accept any breach by Chinese diplomats of the Vienna Convention on Canada’s soil,” Minister Joly told Qin, according to the statement she shared to Twitter on Friday.

See the below statement on my meeting with my Chinese counterpart, Minister Qin Gang. pic.twitter.com/na8qbwynUu

— Mélanie Joly (@melaniejoly) March 3, 2023

While in New Delhi for the G20 summit, Joly also met with her Indian counterpart, Dr. S. Jaishankar, and discussed “furthering [their] collaboration from [Joly’s] visit last month.”

In Delhi, I met with my Indian counterpart and host of this year's @g20org, @DrSJaishankar.

With deep people-to-people ties, we are committed to delivering for our people, engaging through our Indo-Pacific Strategy, and furthering our collaboration from my visit last month. pic.twitter.com/CctzGK4L3C

— Mélanie Joly (@melaniejoly) March 4, 2023