Canada's Trudeau insists arrest of Huawei CFO not 'political'

Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer and the daughter of its founder, was detained at Vancouver airport on a US extradition request.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Source: Flickr - Steve Jurvetson - (Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

With China demanding the release of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said officers who arrested her Saturday as she was changing planes in Vancouver had acted on their own.

"I can assure everyone that we are a country (with) an independent judiciary," Trudeau told a tech conference in Montreal. "And they took this decision without any political involvement or interference."

Francis Chan has more.