Earlier this week, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney sharply criticized China’s handling of the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak, warning the country would soon face “great reckoning” for how it handled the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The Chinese consulate in Calgary is hitting back against recent criticisms levied by Premier Jason Kenney, suggesting Alberta’s premier is fighting with “slander and stigma.”
“What a pity when we read the ‘slamming’ remarks of Mr. Premier against China. A large body of facts and data suggest that China did not play down, obfuscate or cover up the dangers posed by the novel coronavirus when it emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan,” the consulate said in a statement.
“If Mr. Premier did not deliberately turn his head away, these facts and evidence are presenting themselves crystal clearly before his eyes.”
On Wednesday, Kenney sharply criticized China’s handling of the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak, warning the country would soon face a “great reckoning” for how it handled the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
“And I do not think we should just forget this and walk past it,” Kenney told a virtual roundtable hosted by the Washington-based Canadian American Business Council. “There must be some kind of a reckoning. There must be some accountability.”
The statement from the Chinese consulate goes on to say that Kenney should be ready to sustain criticism of his own handling of the pandemic.
“If there is a comparison between what he has done during the outbreak with what Wuhan has, he will not look smarter,” the statement reads, adding that China aims to test every resident of Wu