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Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee cultural community in a safe place that allows us to be who we are, where we celebrate our culture, learn our language, study our scriptures and pass on our rich ancient heritage to the next generation. Every Wednesday, we gather in “Little Tibet” to celebrate those parts of our
February 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Chemi Lhamo
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Yes. Since releasing this report, we've been asked many times from many people why the world doesn't know. How did we miss this? I just want to say that the total information blackout and lockdown of Tibet have resulted in such a dearth of information from Tibet that there's
February 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Lhadon Tethong
Committees of the House and transparent about holding China accountable for various human rights violations. I am speaking of the Tibetan Canadians whom I represent and their Tibetan counterparts who remain in the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the human rights violations that have occurred since 1959, and before
March 21st, 2023House debate
Arif ViraniLiberal
Business of Supply , China wants Canada to accept its claim on Taiwan to annex it by force. It also wants us to accept its draconian 2020 national security law on Hong Kong. It wants us to look the other way with what it is doing in Tibet and its militarization of the South China Sea and sweeping
March 20th, 2023House debate
Raquel DanchoConservative
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee that Tibet is often mentioned as Tibet added on to long statements about other things, as in “and Tibet” and “we are concerned about Tibet”. We appreciate the continued concern for Tibet, but I think that to really name specifically the policies and to talk about and look
February 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Lhadon Tethong
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Thank you, all of you, for allowing me to speak to you about the system of the colonial boarding schools in Tibet. I am here to share my research findings and what I have personally witnessed about the boarding preschools. This is a completely hidden policy of the Chinese
February 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Gyal Lo
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee to get information, but we know that they are also boarding at a very high rate. I think Tibet is always next level and, sadly, a little ahead of everyone else. Because of Tibet's political claims to independence and history, and the global support that Tibet has enjoyed, the Chinese
February 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Lhadon Tethong
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee invited to on Thursday, March 23, at 10 a.m. We'll be sending out an email to everyone on that point. You're invited to be there, but it's not obligatory. I'll take you in a moment, Mr. Viersen. Finally, let us pass the budget for the witnesses who appeared last time on Tibet
March 10th, 2023Committee meeting
The ChairLiberal
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Thank you. For everybody's awareness, we have a second meeting on Tibet with respect to the residential schools that we discussed and looked at last time. The next set of witnesses, which will be in the next month, in April, will be experts. This is all for today. Some
March 10th, 2023Committee meeting
The ChairLiberal
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee it was Ms. Tethong who said that Tibet is the canary in the coal mine. Tibet is sort of ahead. At the same time, I imagine that these techniques and the technologies are being shared and learned from. We noted with the Uighurs that it was the same governor who had been in Tibet who
February 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Anita VandenbeldLiberal
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Thank you. Thank you to the witnesses for appearing today before committee. Ms. Lhamo, you've answered some of the questions that I was going to ask by outlining the final strategy of the Chinese regime or the Chinese Communist Party for the Tibet region and the Tibet
February 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Ziad AboultaifConservative
Information & Ethics committee with ties to the consulate. Some of these sensationalized perspectives have stoked racist and xenophobic sentiments towards Asians in Canada, and they do not offer the nuances that dissident voices from Tibet, Hong Kong and the Uighur communities can bring. As a racialized diasporic
March 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Cherie Wong
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee Thanks very much, again. I came here to fight for the case of Tibet in China now. There are many Tibetans. There are my former students, colleagues and old friends. All of those communities that I visited.... I have to raise the alarm in the international community. My
February 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Dr. Gyal Lo
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee , because then I think it's more powerful also. I would say that it is really important at the same time to.... What I was saying was that Tibet gets a mention these days, and I understand that it's because of a lack of information, but I also think that there's an added responsibility
February 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Lhadon Tethong
Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee . On the Chinese government's tactics, it's so clear that China is constantly duplicating the tactics used by other authoritarian regimes, whether it is surveillance or ripping children away from their families. I want to emphasize this point: Tibet has been on lockdown by design since 2008
February 10th, 2023Committee meeting
Chemi Lhamo