Word out of Ottawa is Canada's Ambassador to China John McCallum has resigned.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked for McCallum's resignation Friday — the move comes after the former ambassador was quoted in StarMetro Vancouver as saying if the US dropped an extradition request against Meng Wanzhou it would be "great for Canada."
The controversy began earlier this week when he laid out several legal arguments the Huawei executive could use to avoid extradition from Canada.
Deputy head of mission at the Embassy of Canada in Beijing Jim Nickel will take over McCallum's role in China.
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer immediately took to Twitter to call the move too little too late.
It should never have come to this. Justin Trudeau should have fired his ambassador the moment he interfered in this case. Instead, he did nothing and allowed more damage to be done. More weakness and more indecision from Trudeau on China. https://t.co/ZkC9S8lS1R
— Andrew Scheer (@AndrewScheer) January 26, 2019
— with files from CTV News.