Canada Joins U.S., U.K. Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Games
- Trudeau cites human-rights abuses in announcing decision
- Officials won’t attend, but athletes can still go to Olympics
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Canada will join the U.S., U.K. and Australia in a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reassesses his government’s relationship with the world’s second-largest economy.
“We are extremely concerned by the repeated human rights violations by the Chinese government,” Trudeau told reporters Wednesday, speaking alongside his ministers of foreign affairs and sport in Ottawa.