⁍ A Canadian border officer told a court on Wednesday he had concerns about intercepting and interviewing Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou.

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⁍ Scott Kirkland told the court he was worried that ‘our examination would be argued as a delay in due process’
He suggested CBSA skip its interview and instead simply identify Meng and hand her over to the RCMP.

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– Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was arrested at Vancouver International Airport in December 2018 on a US warrant for bank fraud. Now she’s fighting extradition to the US, and her lawyers say abuses of process led to her civil rights being violated. Her extradition hearing, expected to last five days, is focusing on the second of three branches of process that Meng’s lawyers claim took place, specifically during her arrest. Reuters reports that on Wednesday, a Canadian border officer testified he had concerns about intercepting and interviewing Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou before police arrested her on a warrant from the United States almost two years ago. Scott Kirkland told the court he was worried that “our examination would be argued as a delay in due process,” adding he and other officers “knew this was going to be a big deal” once they realized Meng was a high-profile person with a US arrest warrant out for her. Kirkland said he suggested CBSA skip its interview and instead simply identify Meng and hand her over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. “There was concerns of possible Charter issues being raised if we’re going to court and at the time I assumed we’d go to court,’ Kirkland said, referring to Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which outline civil rights guaranteed to anyone in the country, citizen or otherwise. Lawyers for Meng have alleged that abuses of process occurred during the three hours between Meng being intercepted by CBSA and arrested by the RCMP.