Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the Chinese government of acting arbitrarily.
"It is of extreme concern to us as a government, as it should be to all our international friends and allies, that China has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply [the] death penalty, as in this case facing a Canadian," he told reporters Monday morning.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau comments on the death sentence given to Canadian Robert Schellenberg in China
Trudeau said Canada will always intervene when a Canadian is sentenced to death in another country.