The COVID-19 pandemic

[ijmorlan]

But these things can largely happen in parallel.

It just seems there is no urgency to resolving this situation, even though it continues to cause harm to our relationship with China.

Actually they cant do it in parallel.   That is not the way it works.  The requesting country has to do up their own warrants and follow their process.  Then the order is forwarded through their own Attorney General.  After approval from their Attorney General, the Order goes to the Country detaining the prisoner, or subject of the arrest warrant.   Once received by this Country, there is a hearing process that occurs that is applicable with the detaining country.   Once a decision is rendered, the detained person may apply for appeal depending on the country. 
Once that all is done, then there are further discussions with respect to the action plan...   It is very long and drawn out.  Put COVID in the mix, and you have even more delays now....

My point is, I don’t care about any of that. Two years is longer than long enough. Remember, both Canada and the US theoretically have “innocent until proven guilty”. Two years is way too long to keep a legally innocent person or jail (or even under house arrest), and if justice is to be served then all the various agencies, offices, and people involved simply have to work within a much shorter time limit. Any argument that it’s totally OK for it to take this long is just biffle-baffle.

Note: I’m still interested in explanations of why it takes so long, but find it nearly inconceivable that any such explanation could actually justify the length of time, as an ethical or moral matter.

Although in this case as I mentioned I have an idea that the defendant is dragging things out, but unfortunately I can’t point to a source for that information so it’s not exactly conclusive.