Afghan Interpreters Update, Michael Spavor, & Two Years In A Chinese Prison

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ON this episode we check back in with our contact person on the situation in Afghanistan and relocating the interpreters, Corey Shelson. Alex and Corey discuss updates on the ground situation, and why red-tape and poor planning is actually killing people. 
Next, Alex talks with Marcus Kolga, a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute & founder of Dis-info Watch. They talk about the sentencing of Michael Spavor and Robert Schellenberg, and if Canada is likely to give up Meng Wanzhou.
and finally, both Michael's Spavor & Kovrig have been imprisoned in a China for almost 1000 days, and have had very little contact with the outside world. And with Michael Spavor being sentenced, we wanted a perspective from someone who would know what it would be like. So Alex talks with Kevin Garratt, who with his wife were arrested and thrown in a Chinese prison for 2 years after being accused of espionage. Just like the two Michaels.
Alex and Kevin discuss what it was like to go through the Chinese judicial system, how he was treated while being interrogated & held, and how similar the two Michaels situation is to his.

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