Canada pushes
for an extradition treaty
with China.
A problematic agreement.
The Chinese may want to know
that sending a woman back to Canada
means she will be treated fairly by the police,
by the court;
that drinking water will be provided
in her First Nations reserve;
that her meals will include
fresh produce;
that her kids won’t be taken away
to a residential school;
and that her name won’t become an entry
in the list of missing and murdered
Aboriginal women.
Or she may be better off
in China.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
