Trudeau, who attended the G20 Summit in New Delhi, had been due to depart India on the weekend.

Relations between Canada and China have soured for various reasons in recent years, most recently over allegations that Beijing tried to meddle in Canadian affairs in 2021 by targeting a lawmaker and his family.

The rarely used powers had been invoked nine days earlier – for only the second time ever in peacetime – and their final approval was still being debated in the Senate when Trudeau lifted them.

The protests by Canadian truckers and their supporters have triggered copycat movements from France to New Zealand, with US truckers mulling similar rallies.