Canada’s foreign affairs minister is calling Russia an outlier in the G8 for granting asylum to U.S. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.
“This is not something that Canada would have considered to do,” Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird told The Canadian Press.
“It is an example where it does show Russia is a bit of an outlier in the G8.”
Canada’s prime minister previously characterized Russia as an “outlier in the G8” for continuing to support the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, while the other nations did not.
Russia’s controversial new anti-gay law has also drawn criticism from Baird. There is much public discussion in Canada about whether athletes going to the Sochi Olympics will be affected by the law.
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