Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thanks for appearing today before the committee. It's very obvious that the Chinese regime and government is trying to use schooling to be able to impact changes on the culture of the Tibet region and Tibetans in general. Since 2008, these forced boarding schools have been

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. We will now be hearing from the senior researcher from Tibet Watch. The floor is yours for five minutes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Therchin. That's right on the time there, for sure. I will now move on to the senior researcher with the Tibet Action Institute. The floor is yours for five minutes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Witness spoke in Tibetan, interpreted as follows:] Five, the aspirations of the Tibetans in Tibet is for His Holiness the Dalai Lama to be able to return at the earliest. Therefore, I urge the Canadian government to consider taking concrete initiatives to support His Holiness

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. We'll now turn the floor over to the Canada Tibet Committee and the executive director from there. You'll have five minutes. I'll attempt to give you a signal at the one-minute mark. The floor is yours.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's, I believe, a difficult choice, but it's a case that's quite common in Tibet. The list of people who are detained is not public. The number I mentioned earlier—2,000—is, I would say, a very small fraction of the overall number. I would guess there are thousands more

Foreign Affairs committee  Picking up on the point of getting information out of Tibet, outside of this legislation, can you talk about other items you think might be helpful in order to get more information out of Tibet—related to this specific legislation or otherwise?

Foreign Affairs committee   committee, is looking at a study relating to residential schools in Tibet. I'd ask you to look out for that in terms of the testimony that we're having there and what the committee will do from that study. I'd like to learn more about the situation in Tibet and to hear about what

Foreign Affairs committee   stand with Tibet. With respect to the first two parts of Bill C-281, the first area is prisoners of conscience. Just in general, maybe not getting into the specifics of the legislation, do you believe that by shining more light on some of the atrocities that are happening

International Trade committee   relationships with countries around the world are extremely important, so I'm grateful for the opportunity to be a guest here today. I work with Mr. Virani on the Canada-Tibet friendship group. It's a bit of a different format, but it's always good to be able to work with him

Foreign Affairs committee   the residential schools in Tibet. Thank you for being here. I'm going to ask the same questions. I'm going to ask two questions and then I'll give you some time to respond, if that's all right. With regard to Bill C-281, the New Democratic Party is bringing forward a number of different

Foreign Affairs committee   proceed with questions for the two witnesses who remain, who are Mr. Therchin from the Canada Tibet Committee and Ms. Katherine Leung from Hong Kong Watch. The first question goes to MP Lawrence. You have four minutes.

Foreign Affairs committee   pleasure to welcome to the committee, as an individual, Professor Daniel Turp, faculty of law, Université de Montréal. Also, from the Canada Tibet Committee, we have Sherap Therchin, who is the executive director, and he is here in person. Last but certainly not least, we're also

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for this opportunity and for making this happen. I will read my remarks and time myself. It's best if I help myself keep to the time. My father was born in a free and independent Tibet in 1934. My eldest brother was born in a Tibetan refugee

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. Second, the SDIR budget for the study of the Chinese government's residential boarding schools and preschools in the Tibet autonomous regions and all Tibetan autonomous prefectures and counties was sent to everyone on March 13, 2023