The consultant shared information with Kovrig, a report says, not knowing it would be relayed to the Canadian government and its Five Eyes intelligence partners.
Spavor was kind of a go-between with North Korea and general information broker, Kovrig was involved an a shady NGO in China and was also doing information brokering for the Canadian government. Like what they were doing was probably not all that harmful to China (trading in public and semi-public information) and not even explicitly illegal, also China might have even been using Spavor for North Korea related stuff themselves. But they aren't officially connected at all with Canada and doing spy-like activites which makes them very easy to round up whenever you need to, like retaliating for the Meng arrest.
Spavor was kind of a go-between with North Korea and general information broker, Kovrig was involved an a shady NGO in China and was also doing information brokering for the Canadian government. Like what they were doing was probably not all that harmful to China (trading in public and semi-public information) and not even explicitly illegal, also China might have even been using Spavor for North Korea related stuff themselves. But they aren't officially connected at all with Canada and doing spy-like activites which makes them very easy to round up whenever you need to, like retaliating for the Meng arrest.